Quotes about Surrender

Love transforms one into what one loves.

If you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations.

I desire many things concerning myself; but I desire nothing so much, as to have a heart filled with love to the Lord. I long for a warm personal attachment to Him.

Many say, 'Show me God and I will trust you.' But it works the other way. When you trust, God will show you.

Give yourself permission to allow this moment to be exactly as it is, and allow yourself to be exactly as you are.

Nothing grieves me so much as that I cannot live constantly to God's glory.

I have received my all from God; oh that I could return my all to God! Surely God is worthy of my highest affection, and most devout adoration; he is infinitely worthy, that I should make him my last end, and live for ever to him.

One great law for all who would be truly led by God's Pillar of cloud and fire, is to take no step at the bidding of self-will or without the clear moving of the heavenly Guide.

God is glorified in the work of redemption in this, that there appears in it so absolute and universal a dependence of the redeemed on him. Here

Faith abases men and exalts God, it gives all the glory of redemption to God alone.

The early Christians kept calling themselves a doulos in their letters to churches. They proudly bore the title of bond servant. They embraced the identity of a servant, and their identity impacted how they lived. Are you proud to be a bond servant of Christ? Or do you prefer another title? The reality: You are a servant.

Bonhoeffer himself knew that in all of it, he was being utterly obedient to God. For him, that was the cantus firmus that made the dizzying complexities of it all perfectly coherent.