Quotes about Surrender

If you want God to bless you and use you greatly, you must be willing to walk with a limp the rest of your life, because God uses weak people.

Love is giving up control. It's surrendering the desire to control the other person. The two—love and controlling power over the other person—are mutually exclusive. If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.

Some have been to the mountain. I have been to my knees by the side of my bed.

So often our greatest triumph is a willing surrender.

Eventually you come to realize that most people aren't looking for a fight but for someone to surrender to.

When you can't figure Me out, you will give up the illusion of predictability and control and discover the joy and freedom of hope.

You're coming to Him not to get Him to enter your world and change things to make you happy and give your life meaning and provide you with the blessings you want. You're now entering His world wanting to bring Him glory, to become a source of joy to your Papa, willing to endure whatever suffering is required to make that happen.

Like the seminarian relying more on his knowledge of Hebrew than on the Spirit to hear God's voice in the text, we're more prone to carefully maneuvering our way through life than to abandoning ourselves to divine providence.

Instruments of God. We are the hammer, but our Father is the carpenter. Do not thank the hammer for a carpentry job well done. Snelling, Lauraine. An Untamed Heart (Red River of the North)

Knowing in her head that God knew of His plans for her and convincing her heart were two different things.

Holiness does not consist in doing extraordinary things. It consists in accepting, with a smile, what Jesus sends us. It consists in accepting and following the will of God.

Time and space are interrelated. To overlook either of them is to be partially blind. What we plead against is man's unconditional surrender to space, his enslavement to things. We must not forget that it is not a thing that lends significance to a moment; it is the moment that lends significance to things.