Quotes About Surrender

Prayer is abandoning my addiction to other glories and delighting in the one glory that is truly glorious-the glory of God

Every time you ask for forgiveness, you declare that your life does not belong to you, but has been created for the purpose of Another.

I no longer need to carry the burden of the past on my shoulders, so I am free to fully give myself to what God has called me to in the here and now.

Whatever sits on the other side of your "if-only" is where you are looking for life, peace, joy, hope, and lasting contentment of heart.

Jesus demands everything, not just so we would submit to his control, but to free us from the control of things that were never designed to control us.

None of us gets our dream in the way that we dreamt it, because none of us is writing our own story. God, in his love, writes a better story than we could ever write for ourselves. He has a better dream than the one we conceive. He knows much better than we do what is best for us. He will take us places that we never intended to go because, in doing so, we become more of what he re-created us in Christ to be.

You do not need to swindle yourself into thinking that you are strong. You can face your weakness with joy because you know that you have been given grace for that weakness; grace that is not a thing, but a person—the Holy Spirit, who makes you the place where he dwells in power.

Joyful, perseverant obedience only ever grows in the soil of worship.

In grace, he leads you where you didn't plan to go in order to produce in you what you couldn't achieve on your own.

Se requiere la mano redentora de Dios para que yo renuncie al propósito de mi reino y vaya tras el Suyo.

Faith is living in light of what God has said, resting in what he has done, and entrusting the future to his care.

successful parenting is not about achieving goals (that you have no power to produce) but about being a usable and faithful tool in the hands of the One who alone is able to produce good things in your children.

God's call to obey is itself a grace. In this call, he is actively rescuing you from you.

Prayer is not bringing your list and asking God to sign on the bottom. Prayer is handing God a blank sheet that you have already signed and trusting him to fill it out as he sees fit.

He lifts the burden of change off our shoulders and never calls us to do what only he can do.

In the center of the kingdom of God, you do not find a gargantuan palace inhabited by an unapproachable king. No, in the center of the kingdom of God is a bloody cross, on which hung a broken King, who welcomes us as we are.

Prayer always forsakes the kingdom of self for the kingdom of God,

We all face things that appear to make little sense and don't seem to serve any good purpose. So rest is never found in the quest to understand it all. No, rest is found in trusting the One who understands it all and rules it all for his glory and our good.

when Jesus touches me with his rescuing grace, he is freeing me from my bondage to me!

Tear up your list and throw it away—what God has planned for you is better than anything you've dreamed of for yourself.

It was humbling to admit that I wasn't living the simple life because I was spiritually committed to it. I was living the simple life because I was poor.

It requires powerful mercy for me to become a person who surrenders self-appointed authority to the authority of God.

It takes God's rescuing hand for me to forsake the purpose of my kingdom and take up the purpose of his.

Suffering confronts us with the fact that life is not about us but about God. It is not about our glory but his.