Quotes About Surrender

He who must die, must die in the dark, even though he sells candles.

Disappointment be not there when one thinks by the will of The Divine.

Solving the problems of this world may be something I have to let go. I suppose there's a lot I will have to let go.

The hardest thing was to let Them and The Philosophy go from my complete control.

We are mere subjects of the world's decision for us.

We dance the dance of death with our hands tied behind our backs.

I dreamt I had entered the body of a hog, that I could not easily get out again, and that I was wallowing in the filthiest slime. Was it a kind of reward? My dearest wish had been granted; I no longer belonged to mankind.

God giveth and God taketh away. Just be sure you're present when he giveth – and somewhere else when he taketh it all back.

Sometimes it's better to just let the wave overcome you and then pick up the shards when it passes

Listen to me, he said, when your dreams are of some world that never was or some world that never will be, and you're happy again, then you'll have given up. Do you understand? And you can't give up, I won't let you.

People tethered to God by faith can let themselves go because they know they will get themselves back.

Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.

You can never learn that Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you have.

Don't bother to give God instructions; just report for duty.

Dear Jesus...how foolish of me to have called for human help when You are here.

It is not my ability, but my response to God's ability, that counts.

when we are powerless to do a thing, it is a great joy that we can come and step inside the ability of Jesus

If God has shown us bad times ahead, it's enough for me that He knows about them. That's why He sometimes shows us things, you know - to tell us that this too is in His hands.

Father sat down on the edge of the narrow bed. "Corrie," he began gently, "when you and I go to Amsterdam-when do I give you your ticket?" I sniffed a few times, considering this. "Why, just before we get on the train." "Exactly. And our wise Father in heaven knows when we're going to need things, too. Don't run out ahead of Him, Corrie. When the time comes that some of us will have to die, you will look into your heart and find the strength you need-just in time.

Today I know that such memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. I know that the experiences of our lives, when we let God use them, become the mysterious and perfect preparation for the work He will give us to do.

When I try, I fail. When I trust, He succeeds.

And our wise Father in heaven knows when we're going to need things too. Don't run out ahead of Him.

You may never know that JESUS is all you need, until JESUS is all you have.

and here I felt a strange leaping of my heart-God did! My job was to simply follow His leading one step at a time, holding every decision up to him in prayer.