Quotes About Surrender

The French are always reticent to surrender to the wishes of their friends and always more than willing to surrender to the wishes of their enemies.

I can only do what I do with a spirit of humor, and faith and give the controls over to something else.

I can't do anything to death, doctor's orders.

Billions of years before twelve step groups, God committed shotgun suicide. Today wall scrapings share His gratitude stories.

I guess we'll just sit around here and casually die, then.

Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.

I surrender to the world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.

he must deny his right to himself, and he must realize who Jesus Christ is before he will bring himself to do it. Beware of refusing to go to the funeral of your own independence

Really, then, our problem is not weakness, but independence! And in covenant, you die to independent living.

Brokenness is the STRIPPING OF SELF-RELIANCE AND INDEPENDENCE FROM GOD...but he is cast in total dependence upon the grace of God working in and through him.

The whole trouble is that we won't let God help us.

God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours.

The bad news is you're falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there's no ground.

If you let go a little you will have a little happiness. If you let go a lot you will have a lot of happiness. If you let go completely you will be free.

When your will is God's will, you will have your will.

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'

Every great movement of God can be traced to a kneeling figure.

We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old.

God is able to accomplish, provide, help, save, keep, subdue... He is able to do what you can't. He already has a plan. God's not bewildered. Go to Him.

When I try, I fail. When I trust, He succeeds.

Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.

Struggle is the meaning of life; defeat or victory is in the hands of God. But struggle itself is man's duty and should be his joy.

For better to come, good must stand aside.