Quotes about Surrender

We can only lose what we have first claimed.

Fate does not bend for us-we must bend to it.

Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is flowing. We are in it.

The ego hates losing — even to God.

Solomon's Song belongs to those who have made the greatest renunciation of all: the renunciation of self. For them, only the Beloved counts.

I wish to be an "I" no longer. I reject my "I." My desire is to be a "He." "When He is revealed, we shall be like Him" (1 John 3:2).

What positive changes in your life could happen if you relied on God's unlimited power instead of your limited willpower.

You were made for God, not vice-versa, and life is about letting God use you for his purposes, not your using him for your own purpose.

How do you know when God is at the center of your life? When God is at the center, you worship. When he's not, you worry.

God is not a cruel slave driver or a bully who uses brute force to coerce us into submission. He doesn't try to break our will, but woos us to himself so that we might offer ourselves freely to him. God is a lover and a liberator, and surrendering to him brings freedom, not bondage. When we completely surrender ourselves to Jesus, we discover that he is not a tyrant, but a savior; not a boss, but a brother; not a dictator, but a friend.

God often calls surrendered people to do battle on his behalf.

Father, if this problem, pain, sickness, or circumstance is needed to fulfill your purpose and glory in my life or in another's, please don't take it away." This