Quotes about Surrender

Oh Thou that givest both the beginning and the completion, give Thou victory in the day of need so that what neither a man's burning wish nor his determined resolution may attain to, may be granted unto him in the sorrowing of repentance: to will only one thing.

In the deepest sense you shall make yourself nothing, become nothing before God, learn to be silent. In this silence is the beginning, which is to seek first God's kingdom

Mine': what does this word mean? Not what belongs to me, but what I belong to, what contains my whole being, which is mine only so far as I belong to it. My God is not the God that belongs to me, but the God to whom I belong; and so, too, when I say my native land, my home, my calling, my longing, my hope. If there had been no immortality before, this thought that I am yours would be a breach of the normal course of nature." —Johannes the Seducer, from_Either/Or_

What is it to be God's elect ? It is to be denied in youth the wishes of youth, so as with great pains to get them fulfilled in old age.

Novissima hora est; and I fain would sleep. The pain has weaned me... Into Thy hands, O Lord, into Thy hands...

It is my weakness that gives me all my strength.

Your weakness can be turned to strength for God's glory.

Jesus is our strength, and what we cannot do or bear, He can both do and bear in us.

Deny your weakness, and you will never realize God's strength in you.

There is this fine line between presenting to You all of my weakness and thinking that it can't be done. In Your strength, I find my own.

God gets glory when his strength shines in our weakness.

Stress and worry is a residual of relying on yourself and being your own god, in control of everything. Worship allows us to rely on God's power to steer us through life.