Quotes about Surrender
The High Places and the hinds' feet do not refer to heavenly places after death, but are meant to be the glorious experience of God's children here and now—if they will follow the path he chooses for them.
— Hannah Hurnard
Accept and bear and obey the Law of Love, and nothing will be able to cripple your hinds' feet or to separate you from me. This is the secret of the High Places, Grace and Glory, it is the lovely and perfect law of the whole universe. It is this that makes the radiant joy of the Heavenly Places.
— Hannah Hurnard
My part, was the prompt reply, was to run away, and the Lord's part was to run after me until He caught me.
— Hannah Whitall Smith
To be one of God's lilies means an interior abandonment of the rarest kind. It means that we are to be infinitely passive, and yet infinitely active also; passive as regards self and its workings, active as regards attention and response to God. It is very hard to explain this so as to be understood But it means that we must lay down all the activity of the creature, as such, and must let only the activities of God work in us, and through us, and by us. Self must step aside, to let God work.
— Hannah Whitall Smith
Perfect obedience would be perfect happiness, if only we had perfect confidence in the power we were obeying.
— Hannah Whitall Smith
Lord, make me see thy glory in every place.
— Michelangelo
Faith never knows where it is being led, or it would not be faith. True faith is content to travel under sealed orders.
— J. Oswald Sanders
I didn't need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees.
— Anne Lamott
Obey God in all things today! Drive out the enemy! Lay the ax to the root of the tree, and the capacity for Jesus Christ will be increased tomorrow.
— Alan Redpath
Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
— Teresa of Avila
Take the wold, but give me Jesus; In His cross my trust shall be, Till, with clearer, brighter vision Face to face my Lord I see.
— Fanny Crosby
Learn to trust His timing. Don't get in a hurry; don't grow impatient; don't try to force doors open. Don't try to make things happen in your own strength. Let God do it His way.
— Joel Osteen