Quotes about Surrender

But little deaths have to be died just as great ones do. Every reminder that aroused a longing had to be offered up.

What we don't have now we don't need now. Possibly His very withholding is in order that the boy may learn, at this crucial juncture in his life, to turn to God in prayer for a deeply felt need.

But, in the words of a Portuguese proverb, "God writes straight with crooked lines", and He is far more interested in getting us where He wants us to be than we are in getting there. He does not discuss things with us. He leads us faithfully and plainly as we trust Him and simply do the next thing.

A willing acceptance of all that God assigns and a glad surrender of all that I am and have constitute the key to receiving the gift of a quiet heart. Whenever I have balked, the quietness goes. It is restored, and life immeasurably simplified, when I have trusted and obeyed.

When the will of God crosses the will of man, somebody has to die.

Matters of the heart still can never put us beyond His love and redemption.

I'm convinced that there are a good many things in this life that we really can't do anything about, but that God wants us to do something with.

Suffering creates the possibility of growth in, holiness, but only to those who, by letting all else go, are open to the training—not by arguing with the Lord about what they did or did not do to deserve punishment, but by praying, "Lord, show me what You have for me in this.

Teach me to treat all that comes to me with peace of soul and with firm conviction that Your will governs all. In unforeseen events let me not forget that all are sent by You.

The same God who urges us to obey also furnishes the desire as well as the strength to do so. Our part is to exercise our wills.

There is no hope for any of us until we confess our helplessness . Then we are in a position to receive grace

If the yearning went away, what would we have to offer up to the Lord? Aren't they given to us to offer? It is the control of passion, not it's eradication, that is needed.