Quotes about Relinquishment

Just take everything exactly as it is, put it in God's hands and leave it with Him.

I frankly confess that even if it were possible I should not wish to have free choice given to me, or to have anything left in my own hands by which I might strive for salvation.

Since God will have us leave father and mother for his sake, certainly he will have us leave lords (governors) for his sake.

Submission is the willingness to give up our right to ourselves, to freely surrender our insistence on having our own way all the time.

Suffering causes us to scan our lives and face the fact that we control very little. So we mourn not only our suffering but also what it has forced us to admit about ourselves. Our loss of the illusion of control also adds to the fear that accompanies suffering.

Before we can pray, 'Thy Kingdom come,' we must be willing to pray—'My kingdom go!

Living, really living, wasn't about clinging to control but about giving it away.

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

You will find it hard to hear from God until you let go your rights and your agenda.

I did, however, remember a line from a book by Dallas Willard that I had read just recently: "At the beginning of each morning I commit my day to the Lord's care. . . . I have already placed God in charge. I no longer have to manage the weather, airplanes, and other people.

Established custom is not easily relinquished, and no man is very easily led to see with the eyes of another. If thou rest more upon thy own reason or experience than upon the power of Jesus Christ, thy light shall come slowly and hardly; for God willeth us to be perfectly subject unto Himself, and all our reason to be exalted by abundant love towards Him.

And it may be a superstition with us that if we will just give up those things we are fond of then the world will not take from us what we truly love. Which of course is a folly. The world knows what you love.