Quotes about Relinquishment

You can never lose what you have offered to Christ.

If God gave it to me, we say it's mine. I can do what I want with it. No. The truth is that it is ours to thank Him for and ours to offer back to Him, ours to relinquish, ours to lose, ours to let go of - if we want to find our true selves, if we want real Life, if our hearts are set on glory.

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!

A mothers greatest joy in having a child is to give that child fully and freely to God.

We can only lose what we have first claimed.

Never say of anything that I've lost it, only that Ive given it back.

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

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

To lose ourselves in God is simply to give up our own will to Him. When a soul can truly say Lord I have no other will than Thine it is truly lost in God and united to Him.

I have learned to hold all things loosely, so God will not have to pry them out of my hands.

If we are to receive the blessings God wants to bestow upon us, we must be willing to give Him the messes in our lives.

I want God, not my idea of God.