Quotes about Surrender

I really believe it's time for some of us to stop apologizing for God and start apologizing to Him for being embarrassed by the ways He has chosen to reveal Himself.

Answers to prayer have to be on God's schedule, not ours. He hears us pray, and He answers according to His will in His own time.

Submission is the willingness to give up our right to ourselves, to freely surrender our insistence on having our own way all the time.

You can't resist the will of God and receive the grace of God at the same time.

I didn't need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees.

If I were going to begin practicing the presence of God for the first time today, it would help to begin by admitting the three most terrible truths of our existence: that we are so ruined, and so loved, and in charge of so little.

A nun I know once told me she kept begging God to take her character defects away from her. After years of this prayer, God finally got back to her: I'm not going to take anything away from you, you have to give it to Me.

God can't clean the house of you when you're still in it.

Here is what I know of love: Love is the gas station and the fuel, the air and the water. You might as well give up on keeping the gas cap screwed on tight, keeping love at bay, staying armored or buttressed, because love will get in. It will wear you down. Love is ruthless, whether you notice this or not....It will win. It always does, at least in the long term...

Prayer usually means praise, or surrender, acknowledging that you have run out of bullets.

But in surrender you have won.

Do you still believe that I am the Resurrection and the Life? Even when you don't get what you want? Even when nothing makes sense?