Quotes About Surrender

struggles are part of God's plan for you.

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.

Peace is found in trusting the person who controls all the things that you don't understand and who knows no mystery because he has planned it all.

if you are God's child, the life force that energizes your thoughts, desires, words, and actions is no longer you; it's Christ!

It takes grace for me to acknowledge that there is a King and that he is not me.

No podemos gloriarnos en aquello de lo que nos libera la gracia, sin aceptar también aquello a lo que nos llama.

If you obey God for a thousand years, you will not have earned more of his acceptance than you were granted the very first moment you believed.

Seeing yourself as hopeless and helpless if left to yourself initiates and ignites your pursuit of God's grace.

If you find more joy in serving God than yourself, you know that grace has entered your door, because only grace has the power to rescue you from you.

La verdad es veleidosa: no hay que buscarla con demasiada pasión, pues, con frecuencia se rinde, más bien a la indiferencia. Se escapa cuando parece que la hemos apresado, pero se entrega si se le espera con paciencia; se manifiesta ella misma después de habernos despedido de ella, pero es inexorable cuando se la ama con excesivo fervor.

we let go in order to let God.

When the Allies bombed the Italians on the island of Pantelleria in June, 1943, General Spaatz, of the United States Air Corps, concluded that bombing "can reduce to the point of surrender any first-class nation now in existence, within six months.

Yun often tells me, "We are absolutely nothing. We have nothing to be proud about. We have no abilities and nothing to offer God. The fact that he chooses to use us is only due to his grace. It has nothing to do with us. If God should choose to raise up others for his purpose and never use us again we would have nothing to complain about.

We must submit ourselves to God and embrace whatever he allows to happen. Sometimes there are times of peace, other times struggle and persecution. But both are from the Lord, to mould us into the vessels he wants us to be.

If you give God the right to yourself, he will make a holy experiment out of you. God's experiments always succeed.

It has been said, "It is not great men who change the world, but weak men in the hands of a great God.

Si quieres qué Dios se ría, dile tus planes.

For peace of mind we need to resign as general manager of the universe.

Loving means losing control of our schedule, our money, and our time. When we love we cease to be the master and become a servant.

Fate was the issue, if anything; not guilt.

our best defense (as stated earlier) is often our defenselessness. In Al-Anon we hear, "Don't complain and don't explain.

As we grow in the program, we realize that assigning blame is not only a waste of time, it is a serious impediment to emotional independence and peace of mind. It really doesn't matter who is to blame. That's not the important question. The important question is who will be the first to take a leadership role in recovery? Who will be the first to surrender, to call a truce, to bring joy and love back into the relationship?

Pray and get ready for it. When you are ready, get by yourself, pray for guidance, and finally give the entire matter and everything connected to it to God. Tell God you are giving this person and the entire business to Him, complete in every detail.

From this moment on, it is entirely His. You are completely free of it. It is gone, done, finished, over. It is as if it never happened. Through the Love of God, you and the other person are both now and forever free.