Quotes About Surrender

Maybe surrender, when it was called for, was the hard part. Not the fight.

Daqui a pouco ficarei em cacos na sua mão - balbuciou. E como sentisse que ele afrouxava o braço, animou-o novamente. - Mas eu quero que seja assim.

Mas o que seria loucura, recusar a realidade ou pactuar com ela?

If the consciousness of God is possible to all healthful souls, why are so many men and women without this consciousness? There are men and women, not a few, who do not want God. They would be very glad to have God if he were always on their side; glad to have God if he would always do what they want him to do. But a supreme will ... a masterful will, a will to which they must conform, they do not want.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.If you say "No! I don't want it right now," that's when you'll get it for sure. Love will make a way out of no way. Love is an exploding cigar which we willingly smoke.

Massa Jesus take care of it in His own time, His own way.

It's easy to have faith when we get everything we want from God, everything we pray for. But when we don't, we have to decide if we want His will or our own. We can't manipulate God by a display of faith or by our actions. Only idols can be manipulated. God is sovereign, and He will do what He do what He wills, for His purpose. And those purposes are often hidden

Often, it'a not one great, dramatic thing that God asks us to do but hundreds of little everyday things. If we want to be used by Him, if we're ready to be used and aren't all tangled up with your own plans and projects, then He'll show us the work He has for us.

We want to make our own plans and then pray, 'My will be done, if you please Massa Jesus, in earth, as it is in my plans.' You got to put your life in Jesus' hands. Trust that in the end, whatever happens, He still in control.

If He strips us of all our own resources, we just might learn to lean on Him. And to start praying again.

Prayer doesn't come with guarantees. We can't change God's mind by pleading with Him. But praying will bring us closer to Him, so He can comfort us and let us know He loves us no matter what happens.

let Him run things the way He knows best, according to His will. Trust Him, Missy. Trust that everything you done for Him and everything you gave up for Him has a purpose. God will give it all meaning in the end.

Love for God is never instant. It has to grow and mature just like any other kind of love. The struggle is always with our will.

He was slowly learning that walking in faith meant leaving a way of life in which he was in control and willingly walking in uncertainty, trusting that God was in control.

Don't ask God what He's doing. That's the wrong thing to ask. Ask Him what you should be doing.

Folks get set on having their own way, and they end up with their hearts broken when it don't happen. God's the one who's deciding what's going to be and what ain't. He knows what's best even if we're too stubborn to realize it sometimes. We're like little kids fighting over the wishbone, squabbling about who's gonna get his wish. Bible says that even though we make lots of plans, it's the Lord who's gonna have his way.

You pray. And you allow the Lord to be your strength. Remember the Lord doesn't give you strength. He is your strength.

General Erwin Rommel, commander of the 7th Panzer Division, was guilty of only slight hyperbole later when he said of his sweep through France: "Nowhere was any resistance attempted. . . . Hundreds upon hundreds of French troops, with their officers, surrendered at our arrival

Even to be impaled by a happy fate makes you jerk against the knowledge of inevitability, of final commitment.

We do not select the stories we write, we do not pick the voices. They take us by surprise and we surrender to them. They write us, they write in us, all over us, through us. They occupy us. We are, in a sense, puppets--to language, with language.

Humans are very attached to outcomes. We say we trust God but behind the scenes we work our fingers to the bone and our emotions into a tangled fray trying to control our outcomes. We praise God when our normal looks like what we thought it would. We question God when it doesn't. And walk away from Him when we have a sinking suspicion that God is the one who set fire to the hope that was holding us together.

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

Living loved is sourced in your quiet daily surrender to the One who made you.

God doesn't want you or me to suffer. But He will allow it in doses to increase our trust. Our pain and suffering isn't to hurt us. It's to save us. To save us from a life where we are self-reliant, self-satisfied, self -absorbed, and set up for the greatest pain of all . . . separation from God.