Quotes about Surrender

I could give all to Time except--except What I myself have held.

I have decided that whatever time I may have left is left for Him.

I don't blame anybody.  I deserve it all.  Let the cold world do its worst; one thing I know—there's a grave somewhere for me. The world may go on just as it's always done, and take everything from me—loved ones, property, everything; but it can't take that. Some day I'll lie down in it and forget it all, and my poor broken heart will be at rest.

Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you.

Like anybody, I would like to have a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will.

The end of life is not to be happy nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may.

Instead of a river, God often gives us a brook, which may be running today and dried up tomorrow. Why? To teach us not to rest in our blessings, but in the blesser Himself.

God never intended for us to live out the Christian life or accomplish His work on the earth in our own wisdom or strength. His plan has always been for us to rely on the Holy Spirit and live a life of obedience in prayer.

about Your kingdom and Your will in my heart, my home, and my generation. In Jesus' name, I pray, amen.

It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.

The motive, principle, and end of the religious life is to make an absolute gift of self to God in a self-forgetting love, to end one's own life in order to make room for God's life.

God has spoken to me many times that my job is to love and his job is to heal.