Quotes about Surrender

The happiest people I know are the ones who have learned how to hold everything loosely and have given the worrisome, stress-filled, fearful details of their lives into God's keeping.

Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.

God doesn't want our success; He wants us. He doesn't demand our achievements; He demands our obedience.

You'll find success in life when you stop trying to include God in your plans and Instead ask God to include you in His.

I don't see success as the goal. Obedience is the goal.

I have only to be true to the highest I know - success or failure is in the hand of God.

But success and failure are of no account. They are God's concern, not mine.

There is ever the prior question of plain duty, with which nothing else, however tempting or promising of success, can come into conflict; and such seasons may be only those when our faith and patience are put on trial, so as to bring it clearly before us, whether or not, quite irrespective of all else, we are content to leave everything in the hands of God.

But what we are given is taken as well, so that we know God's glory comes to us from His will alone.

Certain things need not be said, and there's nothing, not a whisper, prayer, not a sacrifice, not a payment of any price, that would change what's about to happen.

he wants to be completely in control. In a way, it's a relief. ...[she] doesn't have to think when she's with him, or make a decision, or state a preference.

Evil was defeated because good people rose to the challenge and refused to surrender.