Quotes about Surrender
We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own.
- John Owen
It's not a matter of letting go—you would if you could. Instead of Let it go, we should probably say Let it be.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Can we trust that things unfold in their own time and that we do not have to fix everything or even anything?
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Do not become more useful than God.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Faith is obedience nothing else.
- Emil Brunner
The great act of faith is when a man decides that he is not God.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Our heavenly Father never takes anything from his children unless he means to give them something better.
- George Muller
If God, like a father, denies us what we want now it is in order to give us some far better thing later on. The will of God, we can rest assured, is invariably a better thing.
- Elisabeth Elliot
I never made a sacrifice. Of this we ought not to talk when we remember the great sacrifice which he made who left His Father's throne on high to give Himself for us.
- David Livingstone
Acceptance says, True, this is my situation at the moment. I'll look unblinkingly at the reality of it. But I'll also open my hands to accept willingly whatever a loving Father sends me.
- Catherine Marshall
The only reason why I'm a Christian is because I'm a gift of the Father to the Son, not because of anything I've ever done.
- RC Sproul
Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us.
- Elisabeth Elliot