Quotes about Surrender

Those who try to keep their lives will lose them. But those who give up their lives will save them. LUKE 17:33

You'll never know that Jesus is all you need until Jesus is all you have.

An unprayed-for problem is an embedded thorn. It festers and infects—first the finger, then the hand, then the entire arm. Best to go straight to the person who has the tweezers. Let Jesus take care of you. He knows about thorns.

To accept God's grace is to accept God's offer to be adopted into his family.

He gives us more than we request by going deeper than we ask. He wants not only your whole heart; he wants your heart whole.

Give my friends and loved ones freedom from their idols as well so they can fully enjoy being part of your family. Help them know that you are their only creator and nothing on this earth has ownership of them.

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It is only when we let go of life as we know it that we discover true life—the glorious plan laid out by God.

As long as you think you can handle all of your problems by yourself, you don't need a problem-fixer. As long as you are feeling happy, you don't need comfort. As long as you would rather follow your friends Monday through Saturday and follow Jesus only on Sunday, you're not really following Him at all. Because He wants all of you every day, not just a little bit on Sunday.

We can't take control, because control is not ours to take.

Sometimes God takes his time: One hundred twenty years to prepare Noah for the flood, eighty years to prepare Moses for his work. God called young David to be king but returned him to the sheep pasture. He called Paul to be an apostle and then isolated him in Arabia for perhaps three years. Jesus was on the earth for three decades before he built anything more than a kitchen table. How long will God take with you? He may take his time. His history is redeemed not in minutes but in lifetimes.

I had no heart nor art to drag him back to the reeking reality of our life and times.