Quotes About Surrender

unless we learn dependence we will never experience grace.

I need God more than anything I might get from God.

C. S. Lewis once said that God sometimes shows grace by drawing us to himself while we kick and scream and pummel him with our fists. That is my story.

Cada vez que nos aferramos tenazmente a Dios en un momento de dificultad, o sencillamente cada vez que oramos, es posible que esté sucediendo más, mucho más de lo que habríamos podido soñar jamás.

Jesus' kingdom calls us to another way, one that depends not on our performance but his own. We do not have to achieve but merely follow.

Though wrong does not disappear when I forgive, it loses its grip on me and is taken over by God, who knows what to do. Such a decision involves risk, of course: the risk that God may not deal with the person as I would want.

Dios no le importa tanto que lo analicemos. Principalmente, lo que quiere es que lo amemos.

You cannot earn God's acceptance by climbing; you must receive it as a gift.

That stance of openness to receive is what I call the "catch" to grace. It must be received, and the Christian term for that act is repentance, the doorway to grace.

We need a renewed awareness of death, yes. But we need far more. We need a faith, in the midst of our groaning, that death is not the last word, but the next to last. What is mortal will be swallowed up by life.

Resignation is the better part of wisdom.

In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God

You're not cursed daughter, you are the finest and rarest of all my children, the most beautiful, the most beloved. You know that. What curse could stick to you?' The gaze she turns on me is darkened with horror as if she has seen her own death. 'You will never surrender, you will never let us be. Your ambition will be the death of my brothers, and when they are dead you will put me on the throne. You would rather have the throne than your sons.

I think my heart has broken, but I have offered the fragments to God.

This is God's victory: not mine.

Norway surrendered after two months of fighting, which had left 1,335 Norwegians killed or wounded.

I think we should all just lie down beside each other with our arms folded over our chests and die peacefully, Caroline said in a hoarse whisper, ever the actress.

Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away... A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.

Sólo de libre voluntad se somete uno al Amor

The word of the Lord is designed to reshape your purposes, putting you in a position for Him to do through you what you cannot do on your own.

We think we know what we want. In reality we should want nothing else but to be completely in line with His desires for us and His purposes in our generation. So we must resolve to let God be God on His terms, not ours.

You always thought you knew where you were headed. But now your life's been interrupted, and these personal goals, hopes, and trajectories are being asked to take a backseat to what God uniquely has in mind for you.

Making sense of God's call is not a prerequisite for following it. His Word and His promises are enough.

I'm sitting on the edge of my seat, chin nestled in my hands, to see what God is going to do. With my children. With my husband. With me—a regular, everyday woman choosing to surrender to a life interrupted.