Quotes About Surrender

But there are different kinds of death, David. And I prefer that kind, his kind, to the death I've been fighting all my life.

Devices make us pliant. We want to please them.

The most pleasant and useful persons are those who leave some of the problems of the universe for God to worry about.

If we are not willing to wake up in the morning and die to ourselves, perhaps we should ask ourselves whether or not we are really following Jesus.

I need for there to be something bigger than me. I need someone to put awe inside me; I need to come second to someone who has everything figured out.

Christ, in short, asks us to give everything, all our false redemption in the lifeboat, all our false ideas about who God is, all our trust in something other than God to redeem us. In so doing, we die to our broken natures in exchange for His perfect nature, and find unification with Him that will allow God to see us as one.

By accepting God's love for us, we fall in love with Him, and only then do we have the fuel we need to obey.

Perhaps that's another reason true intimacy is so frightening. It's the one thing we all want, and must give up control to get.

I will love you like God, because of God, mighted by the power of God. I will stop expecting your love, demanding your love, trading for your love, gaming for your love. I will simply love.

God allows us to face the tension whether we like it or not.

by accepting God's love for us, we fall in love with Him, and only then do we have the fuel we need to obey.

His troops routed the militia and gained possession of the American guns, one of which was a brass howitzer that carried the inscription "taken at the surrender of York town 1781.

After all, the appeal to stop being yourself, even for a little while, is very great.

Something strangled them as they grew older, made them doubt their own powers—laziness? Habit? Their grip slackened; they stopped fighting and resigned themselves to what happened. "That's Life." That's what they all said. "That's Life, Harriet, that's just how it is, you'll see.

My friend, God loves you today. If you knew how much He loves you, it would break your heart—you would be in tears. Now you can keep from experiencing God's love, but you cannot

?initi nemogu?e- to je stvarnost onih koji poznaju glas svog Gospodina

The only way to be really happy, in such a world as this is to be ever casting all our cares on God.

It is bad enough to be unconverted and going to hell. It is even worse to say, "I know it and will not cry for mercy.

A believer may as soon expect to feel the sun's rays upon a dark and cloudy day, as to feel strong consolation in Christ while he does not follow Him fully.

En tercer lugar, entendamos que "Cristo es el todo" de cada cristiano auténtico en la tierra.

Nothing in my hand I bring, Simply to thy cross I cling; Naked, flee to thee for dress; Helpless, look to thee for grace.

A believer may as soon expect to feel the sun's rays on a dark and cloudy day as to feel strong consolation in Christ while he does not follow Him fully.

Do not think to swim below. The ocean is already pushing into ears, sinuses, temples, the softness of eyes, and the harpsichord strings behind the kneecaps.

It cost me everything, absolutely everything, but maybe it's not love if it doesn't cost us everything.