Quotes About Surrender

Rest will only be found as you are willing to believe that there is Someone who is controlling the details of your life, not only for his glory, but also for your good.

putting your entire existence in the hands of One whom you cannot see, touch, or hear is far from natural. This is why faith is only ever a gift of divine grace.

We realize that God has us just where we need to be so that his purposes for us and his promises to us may come to pass.

Corporate worship is a regular gracious reminder that it's not about you. You've been born into a life that is a celebration of another.

His discipline, therefore, is never the result of his rejection, but the fruit of his acceptance.

Since God writes your story, he knows what you're facing and exactly what grace you'll need to live his way.

The cross welcomes us to look inside and around us and be dissatisfied. It welcomes us not to the dissatisfaction that leaves us hopeless, but a dissatisfaction that leads us to the foot of the cross where mercy and grace are found.

Prayer is abandoning your place in the center of your world and daily surrendering that place to God alone as an act of heartfelt worship.

There is so much that we are incapable of understanding. So rest is found in trusting the Father.

Your obedience is never to be done in the hope that you will get something, but rather in recognition of what you have already been given.

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.

Prayer is surrender to the reality that there is wisdom greater than ours. Prayer confronts us with the fact that we are not as smart as we tend to think we are. It reminds us that there is so much we don't know or understand. It tells us that life is not found in our limited understanding, but in surrendering our lives to the care of the One whose understanding spans from before origin to beyond destiny and includes everything in between.

Prayer is abandoning hope of independent capability and believing that in Christ you're given everything you need for life and godliness.

We would prefer to lob grenades of truth into people's lives rather than lay down our lives for them. But this is exactly what Christ did for us. Can we expect to be called to do anything less?

Principio: Dios nunca te llama a una tarea sin darte lo que necesitas para hacerla. Nunca te envía sin ir contigo.

God's grace not only provides you with what you need, but also transforms you into what he in wisdom created you to be.

Prayer is much more than bringing to God your list of wants, desires, and needs. It is a radical act of worship that reminds you of who you are, who God is, and what life is all about. Prayer is surrender:

Here it is: if you are God's child, the life force that energizes your thoughts, desires, words, and actions is no longer you; it's Christ! God didn't just forgive you. No, he has come to live inside of you so you will have the power to desire and do what he calls you to do.

God will call you to do what you cannot do, but will provide everything you need to do it.

If you believe in God and his control over everything that exists, then you have to accept that all of your grumbling is ultimately grumbling against him.

Hope is more than wishing things will work out. It is resting in the God who holds all things in his wise and powerful hands.

I have been freed, not from God's rule, but from my bondage to me.

As parents we need to be rescued from our addiction to the law of our comfort, pleasure, success, and control. It's not our children's sin that is in the way of good parenting; it's our tendency to make parenting about our little kingdom of wants, needs, and desires, and our tendency to want our children to serve the purposes of our kingdom rather than submit to the purposes of God's kingdom.

God's grace dethrones you from your little kingdom and welcomes you to a much better kingdom than you could ever want for yourself.