Quotes About Surrender

The dead don't give up anything, but the living do.

the mission is not ours but God's.

In the words of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, "Only the obedient believe, and those who believe are obedient" (The Cost of Discipleship, p. 69).

Others will be allowed to succeed in making money…but it is likely God will keep you poor, because He wants you to have something far better than gold, and that is a helpless dependence on Him, that He may have the privilege of supplying your needs day by day out of an unseen treasury.

He placed me in a little cage, Away from gardens fair; But I must sing the sweetest songs Because He placed me there. Not beat my wings against the cage If it's my Maker's will, But raise my voice to heaven's gate And sing the louder still!

Let God form your plans about everything in your mind and heart and then let Him execute them.

It is such a comfort to drop the entanglements and perplexities of life into God's hands and leave them there.

Premature deliverance may frustrate God's work of grace in your life. Just commit the whole situation to Him. Be willing to abide in darkness so long as you have His presence. Remember that it is better to walk in the dark with

A certain giving up of control is good for the soul.

Maybe when you give up your dreams, you find out that there's more to life than dreaming.

Sabes lo mas divertido? Lo que es para partirse de risa? Que no es verdad, que ni siquiera lo quieres. Aunque todo esto terminase sin mas contratiempos, seguirías sin ser feliz. Te rendiste en Brooklyn y en Brakebills, y cuando llegue el momento también te rendirás en Fillory. Es lo más fácil, ¿verdad?

I hadn't chosen my gift, and I hadn't chosen Alonzo either, but here we were. There was so much you didn't get to choose. The hard way was going to be very hard. It would be a long, long time before I felt safe and warm again.

sometimes God wants your son. sometimes He'll settle for a ram. PouncySilverkitten:

Fate is coming whatever you do, so quit wriggling around, it's only making you look more ridiculous than you already do.

Quentin did not consider himself a great interpreter of signs and wonders, but the lesson of the golden key seemed pretty clear to him. It was this: you've already won the game, so quit playing. Remain where you are, in your castle, and you will be safe. No further action on your part is required.

Buddha going down with the ship, while the bed gradually swamped, and the cold seawater lapped up over his knees.

Oh well, another dream dies.

Every story of conversion is the story of a blessed defeat.

Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms.

I became my own only when I gave myself to Another.

You do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but have lost love because you never attempted obedience.

There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, in the end, "Thy will be done."

I call this Divine humility because it is a poor thing to strike our colours to God when the ship is going down under us; a poor thing to come to Him as a last resort, to offer up "our own" when it is no longer worth keeping. If God were proud He would hardly have us on such terms: but He is not proud, He stoops to conquer, He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything else to Him, and come to Him because there is "nothing better" now to be had.

Even the best Christian that ever lived is not acting on his own steam--he is only nourishing or protecting a life he could never have acquired by his own efforts.