Quotes about Relinquishment

I need no longer always manage and muster support for my "cause."

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

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.

I want God, not my idea of God.

We can face whatever comes once we have relinquished our lives and the lives of our loved ones to Him. He is the God we can trust for strength each day. He is the One with all the love and understanding, who has a clear and eternal purpose for us.

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

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. MARTIN LUTHER

I've learned that sometimes I have to give up my right to know and simply believe that God's knowing is enough.

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

Peace comes in situations completely surrendered to the sovereign authority of Christ.

If my life is surrendered to God, all is well. Let me not grab it back, as though it were in peril in His hand but would be safer in mine!

To pray with your fists closed means you're hanging onto something. Let it go. Open your hands to God.