Quotes About Surrender

If you work your hardest and you do your best, then the rest is not in your control, but in God's Hands.

There comes a time when you're losing a fight that it just doesn't make sense to keep on fighting. It's not that you're being a quitter, it's just that you've got the sense to know when enough is enough.

To a mind that is still, the entire universe surrenders.

Let go of your past, and look to Mine, where I died for you. Yield to Me, and I will make you a true Knight of the Prince.

I haven't much to offer,my Prince,for I am unskilled,ill-epuipped,and unworthy....yet I offer myself to You.If there is something more to following You,then show me and I will see.Command me and I will obey.Lead me and I will follow.If my feeble life can be used by You,I give it.I am Yours,my King and my Prince.

he loved what it felt like to turn a situation that he couldn't control over to a God who could.

And there in her bewilderment he recognized his grave mistake. He had surrendered himself to Claire, just as Krista had to him. When you give someone the power to save you, you give them the power to destroy you as well.

The Enemy invites us to focus on ourselves, while genuine worship requires us to focus on God.

Jesus makes us get rid of life as agenda and take up life as adventure. —Leonard Sweet

As Paul says in Philippians 1:21, God doesn't just want to be "a part" of our lives, He wants to be our very life itself.

The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.

For years now, I've wanted to fall asleep. The sort of slipping off, the giving up, the falling part of sleep. Now sleeping is the last thing I want to do.

sometimes balk at Jesus' strange commands thinking, But if nothing happens I will look so stupid. Here is the heart of the matter: It is not about you. It is about the work of Jesus and the glory of God. His thoughts are always higher than ours and His work is always greater than what we ask or think.

Will you give the girl to me?" she said. "Will you let me try?" He nodded, dizzy with relief. "Please, Willo. Please. Save her. It doesn't matter...what happens to me.

Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be provided for you. – Matthew 6:33

She flew into his arms. Held on tight as he swung her off her feet and hugged her so hard it hurt. She didn't care. She didn't want him to ever let go.

Au bout d'un moment, l'enfant cessa de lutter et posa ses mains

Cindy McCormick Martinusen

It never ceases to amaze me how hard kneeling is - the joints complaining and my rational mind telling me that I'm too old and that God can hear my prayers from the comfort of my chair. Someday my knees may not let me up. Or I'll catch my death from the draft along the floor. The excuses are valid. Yet there is something amazing about kneeling, the humility and greatness of need that well up within me as I find my place there. It is my way to pray.

I trust in God, and His ways are not our ways. So we have to go with that, and there's nothing I can do about that.

I got lost in him, and it was the kind of lost that's exactly like being found.

Tell her to lift her skirt so her bottom is directly on the leather." Would she catch the homage to Pauline Reage?

Can you imagine yourself in such a scenario? Living the lifestyle 24/7? Sleeping bound in chains, your every move dictated by another? Your body, heart and soul the possession of a Master who wouldn't hesitate to take what he wanted, but also to give you what you need, what you crave, what you were born for?" "Oh my god

Because there are times when a person needs a little bitty death and doesn't even know it. As for me, I substitute the act of death for a symbol of it. A symbol that can be summed up in a deep kiss but not on a rough wall but mouth-to-mouth in the agony of pleasure that is death. I, who symbolically die several times just to experience the resurrection