Quotes About Surrender

Jesus said in Matthew 6:33, "Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you." The way of the world is to go about and grab everything in sight. The world makes material possessions – food, clothing, money, houses, cars – its objective. But in this new life, if you make the will of God your objective, God will add these things. That saves a lot of worry if you know that God is the One doing the adding.

When you think about renouncing your own will and embracing the will of God, let me suggest you bear three truths in mind. First of all, God loves you more than you love yourself. Second, God understands you better than you understand yourself. And third, God wants only the best for you. When you truly yield to God's will, you will discover that it is what the Bible says it is: "good and acceptable and perfect" (Romans 12:2).

Glu de l'étang lait de ma mort noyée [Glue of the pool milk of my death drowned]

When God grabs you by the scruff of the neck then although theoretically you have a freedom to say 'no', in another sense, actually, you can't say no because it's like Jeremiah. 'God, you have cheated me. You called me to be a prophet against the people that I love, and all that I proclaim is words of doom and judgement.' And yet if I say I will shut up, I can't.

Ningún hombre es dueño de su propia vida", dijo. "Una parte de ti siempre está en manos de otra persona. Todo lo que puedes hacer es esperar que sea principalmente en las manos de Dios en las que estás".

And in the end, it does not matter. I am what God has made me, and must deal with the Times in which He has placed me.

but there came a point when one abandoned hope for faith, and trusted fate for charity.

For so many years, he said, for so long, I have been so many things, so many different men.... But here, he said so softly I could barely hear him, here in the dark, with you.... I have no name. I lifted my face toward his, and took the warm breath of him between my own lips. I love you, I said, and did not need to tell him how I meant it.

Go to bed, Tom, he managed to say. Don't wake me in the morning. I plan to be dead.

No man owns his own life," he said. "Part of you is always in someone else's hands. All ye can do is hope it's mostly God's hands you're in.

Then I laid my head upon his chest and gave my dreams up to his keeping.

And I want only to throw myself into it and be consumed.

I am what God has made me, and must deal with the Times in which He has placed me.

There comes a turning point in intense physical struggle where one abandons oneself to a profligate usage of strength and bodily resource, ignoring the costs until the struggle is over. Women find this point in childbirth; men in battle. Past

While my mind might object to being taken on a bare rock next to several sleeping soldiers, my body plainly considered itself the spoils of war and was eager to complete the formalities of surrender.

Lord, help me do what You want me to do—but in the name of Christ Your son, let me live through it.

Come to me. Cover me. Shelter me, a bhean, heal me. Burn with me, as I burn for you. Until we two burn to ashes.

When I started my spiritual journey, I realized I had to cut away from all attachment.

I do not attempt to orchestrate my career. I let God do that.

I agree to, or rather aspire to, my doom.

When I was still drinking, I thought I was kind of in control of everything in my life and other people's lives and realized at some point that that just wasn't the case at all.

I place my life in the hands of God each day. And I trust that He knows what He's doing, even when I do not.

It's easier for me to let the game just come to me.

I found peace through God but not until I had driven myself to the edge.