Quotes About Surrender

The duty hardest to fulfil, To learn to yield our own self-will.

This is a revolution not a coup . It is either unconditional surrender or we will take down the garrison

He will provide, protect, and shower grace in abundance as we give our burdens, the heaviness of our jobs or family situations, to the one who is eternally faithful and true. When we do, the Spirit will show us what is our part, what is God's part, and what is others' part so we don't try to do everything. As we give the Lord our deepest burdens, we will know him more deeply and grow in thankfulness. Then we will find rest for our souls.

O what peace we often forfeit,      O what needless pain we bear,      All because we do not carry      Everything to God in prayer! —"WHAT A FRIEND WE HAVE IN JESUS" BY JOSEPH SCRIVEN

TO PRAY IS TO LET JESUS INTO OUR LIVES. HE KNOCKS AND SEEKS ADMITTANCE, NOT ONLY IN THE SOLEMN HOURS OF SECRET PRAYER; HE KNOCKS IN THE MIDST OF YOUR DAILY WORK, YOUR DAILY STRUGGLES, YOUR DAILY "GRIND." THAT IS WHERE YOU NEED HIM THE MOST. Ole Hallesby (1879-1961)

Thank you for all the ways you have provided for my needs, physically, spiritually, emotionally, and relationally. Help me to respond with thanksgiving and with obedience to your principles and your will.

And if there are gods after all, perhaps we should not struggle so hard to get their attention, if this is the attention they would lavish upon us.

If you choose to surrender your pen to God, you will probably face the odd looks and stares from your friends or family members who won't understand your choices. They may think you're not doing enough to "make this happen" on your own.

I've prayed countless prayers to God saying, "Please take this desire away." But He hasn't! I even asked, "Just take the desire away until you're ready to give it to me. Hold it in a box. Duct tape it closed for later because I don't want to desire anything that you don't have for me right now! It hurts too much.

8. Surrender means trusting Him.

He'd been running from this for so long. Words resonated in his heart—clear and unmistakable. Be still and know that I am God. In other words, stop running from the memories.

The universe, I'd learned, was never, ever kidding. It would take whatever it wanted and it would never give it back.

But no one laughed. No one would. The universe, I'd learned, was never, ever kidding. It would take whatever it wanted and it would never give it back.

Sometimes you'll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go. Acceptance is a small, quiet room.

I'll never know, and neither will you of the life you don't choose. We'll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn't carry us. There's nothing to do but salute it from the shore.

This is not the way I wanted it to be, that single honey said, but it was the way it was.

I'd have to eat that

Hoe wild het is, om alles te accepteren zoals het zich voordoet.

The universe, I'd learned, was never, ever kidding. It would take whatever it wanted and it would never give it back. I

it with their fingers out of my hands,

The same as she'd always done when she'd seen me suffer because I wanted something to be different than it was and she was trying to convince me with that single word that I must accept things as they were.

But no one laughed. No one would. The universe, I'd learned, was never, ever kidding. It would take whatever it wanted and it would never give it back. I really did have only one boot.

Sometimes you'll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you'll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go. Acceptance is a small, quiet room.

Acceptance asks only that you embrace what's true.