Quotes about Surrender
Now we will let the knight of faith appear in the rôle just described. He makes exactly the same movements as the other knight, infinitely renounces claim to the love which is the content of his life, he is reconciled in pain; but then occurs the prodigy, he makes still another movement more wonderful than all, for he says, "I believe nevertheless that I shall get her, in virtue, that is, of the absurd, in virtue of the fact that with God all things are possible.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The higher life begins for us ... when we renounce our own will to bow before a Divine law.
- George Eliot
There is no condition of life in which we cannot abide in Jesus. We have to learn to abide in Him wherever we are placed. Our Brilliant Heritage, 946 R
- Oswald Chambers
God is so immense that if he were 'too visible,' people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there.
- John Ortberg
To suppose that whatever God requireth of us that we have power of ourselves to do, is to make the cross and grace of Jesus Christ of none effect.
- John Owen
The answer, The answer, my friend, is not yours to invent or create. It will be decided for you. It is outside you. It is real and objective and firm. One day you will hear it. You don't create it. You don't define it. It comes to you, and sooner or later you conform to it—or bow to it.
- John Piper
You cannot know what prayer is for, until you know that life is war.
- John Piper
A Christian is not a person who believes in his head the teachings of the Bible. Satan believes in his head the teachings of the Bible! A Christian is a person who has died with Christ, whose stiff neck has been broken, whose brazen forehead has been shattered, whose stony heart has been crushed, whose pride has been slain, and whose life is now mastered by Jesus Christ.
- John Piper
When everything in life is stripped away except God, and we trust him more because of it, this is gain, and he is glorified.
- John Piper
God loves us by liberating us from the bondage of self so that we can enjoy knowing and admiring him forever.
- John Piper
What masters us has become our god; and Paul warns us about those whose "god is their belly" (Philippi- ans 3:19).
- John Piper
Be glad in the Lord and receive willingly from His Hand all that he designs for my holiness - both painful and pleasant.
- John Piper