Quotes About Surrender

Your Lord pries open your hands and takes away your crutches and distractions. He exposes your weaknesses so that you will cry out for what he knows you need, but what you have been willing to live without.

The reality of eternity infuses the here and now with seriousness and hope. The way you live is important because there is an eternity to follow. The choices you make are important because there is a forever. The things you believe are important because the world is moving toward eternity. The things you surrender your heart to are important because there is an eternal tomorrow.

You can take your life off your shoulders because God has placed it on his.

most people who are angry with God are angry with him for being God. They

Only powerful, rescuing grace can take you from "Let me do what I want to do" to "Guard me against the temptation to do what you know is best for me not to do.

Prayer always forsakes the kingdom of self for the kingdom of God, and for that we all need forgiving, rescuing, and transforming grace.

May your kingdom so rule my heart that stepping over your boundaries would no longer be attractive to me.

To think today, when your life doesn't work as planned, that it's out of control is to forget that Jesus reigns for your sake and his glory.

You cannot ask for forgiveness without acknowledging that there is something in life that is more important than the progress of your own kingdom.

God designed us to be worshipers. Everything we do is the product of worship. We are always giving our hearts to something, and if it's not God, it's something God created. All

Todo deseo humano debe sostenerse en sumisión a un propósito mayor, los deseos de Dios para Su reino.

Faith is something that you do with your life. True biblical faith doesn't stop with thought; it radically rearranges the way that you approach everything in your life.

Good parenting, which does what God intends it to do, begins with this radical and humbling recognition that our children don't actually belong to us. Rather, every child in every home, everywhere on the globe, belongs to the One who created him or her. Children are God's possession (see Ps. 127:3) for his purpose.

We don't obey to get his favor; we obey because his favor has fallen on us and transformed our hearts, giving us the willingness and power to obey.

The crisis of faith that often accompanies suffering is the result of a collision between our will and God's will and our glory and his glory.

Prayer is handing God a blank sheet that you have already signed and trusting him to fill it out as he sees fit.

Your rest is not to be found in figuring your life out, but in trusting the One who has it all figured out for your good and his glory.

True Christianity is always a matter of the submission of the heart to God, something that only rescuing grace can produce.

You have no reason for fear when you answer God's call; you have every reason to be afraid when you put your life in your own hands.

need grace, and when you forget how much you need grace, you quit seeking the rescue and strength that only grace can give.

He placed himself under broken and unjust human rule in order to liberate us from self-rule and transform us into people who celebrate and willingly submit to his rule.

Tendremos descanso en medio del caos no porque tengamos todo resuelto, sino porque sabemos quién es Él.

whenever you ask creation to do what only the Creator can do, you are on your way to addiction.

Humility means the willingness to look in the mirror of God's Word and being glad that whatever we see there has already been covered by the blood of Jesus.