Quotes About Surrender

The attempt is to kill the false "I", so that the real "I", the Lord, will reign. "I the Lord thy God am a jealous God. Thou shalt have no other gods before me," say the Hebrew scriptures.

Once I stopped trying to always do everything my way, and once I asked for God's help, things have truly gone a different direction.

I bleed my bones, their marrow to bestowUpon that God who knows what I would know.

If God does not have our highest allegiance, we will use prayer to try to get things that have that designation.

Sometimes we need help from a god

I've been raising up my hands drive another nail in just what God needs one more victim

Even those of us who have tasted the radical saving grace of God find it intuitively difficult not to put conditions on grace.

God has granted me today a very particular fondness for requesting of Him that same virtue of ever choosing the worst and that which is contrary to my own liking.

So we can say, reverently, that God never gave us the Law to keep: he gave us the Law to break! He well knew that we could not keep it.

You can see the walls roar See your brains on the floor Become God Become cripple Become funky

God said, Here. Have it. Enjoy it. I'm gonna be miserable?

Prayer is a ritual! But at the root of prayer is the idea of complete bowing down in submission to the Will of God.

This feeling of helplessness in us has arisen from our deliberate dismissal of God from our common affairs.

Without an unreserved surrender to His grace, complete mastery over thoughts is impossible.

"Do not worry in the least about yourself, leave all worry to God" this appears to be the commandment in all religions.

God will rule the lives of all those who will surrender themselves without reservation to Him.

Once you've had enough and you can't do it anymore, you consider the possibility that there might be a better way. That's when your head cracks open and God comes in.

Spend the next few days preparing for the year ahead: Forgive everyone, let go of everything, let God take charge. Amen.

Once we truly understand that God's will is that we be happy, we no longer feel the need to ask for anything other than that God's will be done.

Do you trust that God is for you even when He doesn't give you what you asked for?

We pray as if God's chief objective is our personal comfort. It's not. God's chief objective is His glory.

God, find us on our knees because we know that when we get our knees, You extend Your powerful right hand.

A definition of faith: everything will be alright by God's standards, maybe not ours, but by His for sure.

The true despisers of the world are the people who accept what God sends them, gratefully use all things when they have them, and gladly do without them if God takes them away