Quotes About Surrender

I accomplish more when I rest wholly in the labor of Jesus than I do when I frantically try to do the work for Him.

I would rather obey than work miracles.

Speak Thou in my words today, think in my thoughts, and work in all my deeds.

Trying harder doesn't work for me. Slowly I've learned to pray for God's help and He has become my greatest love and desire.

Begin a fast, and trust God to work that in your heart.

See that any time you feel pained or defeated, it is only because you insist on clinging to what doesn't work. Dare to let go and you won't lose a thing except for a punishing idea.

The opening of your hearts to receive the Lord Jesus Christ is not a work done by any power of your own, but the arm of the Lord is revealed therein.

Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy of the work at hand.

Cease trying to work everything out with your minds, it will get you nowhere.

Being broken is both God's work and ours. He brings His pressure to bear, but we have to make the choice...All day long the choice will be before us in a thousand ways.

The secret of the missionary is...I am His, and He is carrying out His work through me.

...if I die suddenly, my gravestone might appropriately offer this insight into my departure: "God got tired." I require lots of work.

There is no kind of experience in which a Christian has a right to refuse to praise God, for 'all things work together for good to them that love God.'

We must invite the Cross to do its deadly work within before we can be free.

Something given, something taken away. Does it always have to work like that?

As soon as I was obedient to just taking a chance on God, all of these things that you're seeing - 'Black Panther' or 'Humans' or 'The Commuter' or Steven Spielberg - it came right after I took that break.

I want to be a good steward and make sure what's in my heart is what God wants, and then once it's done and released, at that point it's up to God and what he does on the back end.

I've stopped questioning things and how things work.

I don't think I know better than what the cosmos has in store for me.

It's sort of what the Johnny and Devi stories are about, the idea of always being a slave to something.

America needs to get over it. We can't control everything. We can't control the storms.

I think that there's a strain in journalism that believes that anyone who surrenders him- or herself to faith and to belief necessarily checks reason and rationality at the door.

If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.

Brugha argued against ambushes, preferring what Deasy termed 'straight fights'. He wanted the ambushers to call on the Auxiliaries or Tans to surrender before fire was opened. The Cork OCs pointed out that if they did this they would be robbed of their principal weapon, surprise, which they badly needed against a numerically superior and more heavily armed enemy.