Quotes About Surrender

Love is a beggar who stills begs when one has given him everything

For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer. (Psalms 109:4)

Love is the only fire that is hot enough to melt the iron obstinacy of a creatures' will.

I never asked you to earn me. I want only that you should need me. Your path is not one of merit. Bring the recurring desires of your mind to me, every time they emerge. They cannot shock me, for I willed them! Bring me your confusion, your fear, your craving, your anxiety, your inability to love the world, your hesitation to serve, your jealousy, all the deficiencies that defy your spiritual disciplines.

Touch your lips just so I know in your eyes, love, it glows so I'm bare boned and crazy for you when you come crash into me, baby and I come into you...

Only when you are lost can love find itself in you without losing its way.

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender.

Love is a lot like dancing-you just surrender to the music.

To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go

Nothing significant in the kingdom of God happens unless death occurs.

A broken person understands she needs rescue, and she depends on God to resurrect and deliver. And she also understands that even if God chooses not to deliver, His ways are higher and more amazing then what we can fathom.

The Gospel isn't a life management program. It shouldn't merely be the crutch we fall on when life gets ugly. It should be the legs we walk on, the air we breathe.

God's heart…is not that we escape our lot, but that we learn to thrive in the midst of it.

Growth comes from God, to those with surrendered, yielded hearts.

To abandon all is to take our hearts, place them before the One who created them, and dare to believe He can live life powerfully through our surrendered lives.

Why must we cling to those who walk away instead of granting freedom? We must give the same liberty God gives to prodigals-an ability to let them go-or we'll be perennially bound to others for our happiness and effective service.

When Jesus isn't our everything, our enough, we pursue every other thing that fills.

You have not stolen my heart, but I give it freely

Lay down your arms, and we will create a hope that lasts

The relief of giving in to destruction.

But I'm so very glad that my resistance was futile!

Intimacy was a web spun of many strands, and each small submission on her part was a point won for him.

God does not ask your ability Or your inability. He asks only your availability.