Quotes about Surrender

A person who is obsessed is characterized by committed, settled, passionate love for God, above and before every other thing and every other being.

God has made me desire always what he most wants to give me.

What love commences can be finished by God alone.

Love comes softly, it cannot be forced...cannot bear the weight of our expectations. Love always comes in the surrender - in the falling.

Perfect love of God means the complete union of our will with God's.

I would rather die and come to Jesus Christ than be king over the entire earth. Him I seek who died for us; Him I love who rose again because of us.

Alas, O Lord, to what a state dost Thou bring those who love Thee!

If you truly love God and His will, then doing what you will, will, in fact, be doing what God wills.

For me to love you, Jesus, as you love me, I would have to borrow your own love and then only would I be at rest.

That's why the most stressed-out people are control freaks. They fail at the quest they most pursue. The more they try to control the world, the more they realize they cannot. Life becomes a cycle of anxiety, failure; anxiety, failure; anxiety, failure. We can't take control, because control is not ours to take.

Pieces don't fit. Wine runs out. Water bottles burst. These are facts of life. But Jesus responds with this invitation: "Bring your problems to me.

Besides, consider what he did. He gave his Son. His only Son. Would you do that? Would you offer the life of your child for someone else? I wouldn't. There are those for whom I would give my life. But ask me to make a list of those for whom I would kill my daughter? The sheet will be blank. I don't need a pencil. The list has no names.