Quotes about Surrender

As long as you pretend to be self-sufficient, you short-circuit God's power in your life. You need to admit your inadequacy and say, "God, I can't handle this!"

I've never walked to an altar in my life. I gave my life to Christ in my bedroom as a child.

When I gave my life to the Lord, I thought I'd be a preacher.

The most liberating act of free, unconditional grace demands that the recipient give up control of his or her life.

So it is that the life force may take possession of a man-- so that in the end he may be possessed by something greater, no longer at all belonging to himself.

Life always brings you what you need.

To which the father replied, a good Christian is bound to relinquish not only goods and children, but life itself, for the glory of his Redeemer: therefore I am resolved to sacrifice every thing in this transitory world, for the sake of salvation in a world that will last to eternity.

As I had only once to die, I was content to leave the time and place and means in the hand of God.

What you are able to walk away from will determine what God can bring you to!

Let us put ourselves into His hands, and not be startled though He leads us by a strange way, a mirabilis via , as the Church speaks. Let us be sure He will lead us right, that He will bring us to that which is, not indeed what we think best, nor what is best for another, but what is best for us.

I have one desire now - to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.

I realized that the deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His letting us have our way in the end, but by His making us wait, bearing with us in love and patience until we are able to honestly to pray what He taught His disciples to pray: Thy will be done.