Quotes About Surrender

Why are Christians so disquieted in their minds? They are taking care when they should be casting care.

When you get down on your knees praying for help, God's gonna look at you and keep doing what He was doing

In the past I have been preoccupied with worthless, ruinous pursuits. Now I shall regard my own self as the enemy and shall call upon all eight classes of worldly gods, demigods, and demons, and all eighty thousand families of obstructive forces to withdraw their support of this self.

I wanna be where all your paths end." He nipped her earlobe. "I wanna do everything you do to me." He pulsed his finger then, and she came with a shuddery cry. "You're hired," she breathed.

cracked her open, and she'd come spilling out, slow and sweet as honey. She wanted to hate letting him get inside again. She'd been so willing to give it all up.

When it's real, you don't fall in love with any awareness. You don't get a say. You get hit fucking hard and then process it later. You know?

I want to know without words. I want to fall so violently that I risk breaking into a million pieces.

won't," she whispered. "And yet you can leave me so easily for a baby you don't have and a husband you've never met. I'm here, I'm real, and I just lost to a goddamned fantasy. I must've never really had you at

Why is erasing desire seen as so important? If the subjugation of the self is the point of the self what's the point in having a self? It's like someone handing you a leaflet which says throw this leaflet away.

You wanna know how to make God laugh?" he said. "Tell him your plans.

I'm trying to quit," he said. "Just so you know." He lit the cigarette and inhaled so long and so deep it sounded like air being let out of a tire.

You wanna know how to make God laugh?" he said. "Tell him your plans." (God-shaped Hole)

When you reach my age, you learn that there are some fights you simply cannot win.

I may wonder what kind of mission God has for me, when I should be asking what kind of me God wants for his mission.

God offers Moses everything without God, but Moses doesn't want everything. He wants God. And so he declines the offer. The blessings of the promised land are secondary to the true blessing which is God himself.

though my flesh contradict and rebel, yet I will endeavour to govern my life by your direction.

When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm.

I've been through difficult times where it just seems like hope is nowhere to be found, but those are some of the greater moments where we run to Christ a little faster and hang on a little tighter.

This is not what I would have chosen. But I have a heart to be obedient.

I don't have a cause - I am being obedient to God.

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

When you feel like it's too hard to obey God, remember that He will never tell you to do something without giving you the grace, power and ability to do it.

I think we've overstated that God is the God who wants us to obey. Obedience is not the end game. Obedience is only our calling so that we can step into our freedom.

The obsession that you have to manage everything - it's really bad.