Quotes About Surrender

We say to God, 'Show me and I'll believe.' Instead, God says to us, 'Believe, and I'll show you.' This is the life of following Jesus Christ. We say, 'God, show me your will and I'll obey you.' God says, 'Obey me, and I'll show you my will.

Jesus never called us to be believers--he calls us to be followers who believe. It was so easy for me to be a Christian early on because I thought the whole thing was an exercise in believing. But following Jesus is an exercise in living--because we believe.

Many of us are religious precisely to keep us from trusting God. We go to church, we give money, and we do all the right things--in the hope that God will never puts us in a position where we actually have to trust him.

Turns out I was wrong. Truth is I just couldn't do it any more.

Well, if that's me dinner, I've had it.

Obedience is the ultimate act of worship. It is also an act of faith because it's an act of trusting love.

It's not that we are getting more of the Spirit so that we can use him for our will; he is getting more of us so he can use us for his will.

Our ability to surrender in life is directly related to the amount of peace and fulfillment we experience.

Orar no es vencer la renuencia de Dios, sino echar mano de su voluntad".

We agreed that our own ideas and expectations tended to make us deaf to hearing God's will. We needed, at least at times, to just lay them down and listen. Leave the next move entirely up to God.

There are two types of sacrifices: correct ones, and mine.

God controls all things, but we don't understand his reasons. Sometimes, I don't like his actions, either. It's frustrating".

Noa – because he obeyed and did what the Lord asked. Noa – because he believed when it was impossible to do so.

Her job was to rest before dying. All she had to do was nothing at all.

Receive without complaint, Work with fate.

Atmink viena: likimo mes negalim ?veikti, bet galim jam nesipriešinti ir gauti iš to visa, kas ?manoma.

I would always be earthbound; he hadn't robbed me of my ability to fly or to live forever. I appreciated nuns now, not the conscripted kind, but modern women who chose it. If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have?

It was still diving, it was still letting go of mammalian pride and embracing gravity.

Pana la urma ma scufundam totusi in somn, infasurat intr-un cocon de vise scamoase. Ma topeam in vis ca zaharul in apa, alunecam ca un cursor pe cremaliera uitarii. Magistrale ale visului virau brusc in autostrazi ale realitatii, creand constelatii si engrame pe care cineva, de foarte sus, le-ar fi putut citi ca pe un tatuaj multicolor, iar cineva de foarte jos le-ar fi simtit pe propria piele, ca pe tortura sadica a tatuarii." (MIrcea Cartarescu - Orbitor, Aripa stanga)

As long as you have not grasped that you have to die to grow, you are a troubled guest on the dark earth".

Faith is the way we as receivers relate appropriately to God as the giver. It is empty hands held open for God to fill.

Ranger Creed, particularly the fifth stanza, which begins: "Energetically will I meet the enemies of my country. I shall defeat them on the field of battle for I am better trained and will fight with all my might. Surrender is not a Ranger word.

She went boneless.

Being alive requires of us a relationsip with the mysterious, life-long experience of letting go.