Quotes about Surrender

Our major problems of acceptance and trust usually have to do with timing, because God's timetable is always different from ours. He wants me to wait in order to believe, in order to learn to put my faith in His timing.

My portion. My cup. My lot is secure. My heart can be at peace. My Father is in charge. How simple!

One morning I was reading the story of Jesus' feeding of the five thousand. The disciples could find only five loaves of bread and two fishes. "Let me have them," said Jesus. He asked for all. He took them, said the blessing, and broke them before He gave them out. I remembered what a chapel speaker, Ruth Stull of Peru, had said: "If my life is broken when given to Jesus, it is because pieces will feed a multitude, while a loaf will satisfy only a little lad.

God will see to it that we understand as much truth as we are willing to obey.

Strange—or is it?—that childish hopes should be answered in the will of God for this now?

When our plans are interrupted, His are not. God's plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us always - including those minutes or hours or years which seem most useless or wasted or unendurable - toward the goal of true maturity.

God is more interested in our response than He is in the tangible results.

God calls me. In a deeper sense than any other species of earthbound creature, I am called. And in a deeper sense I am free, for I can ignore the call.

If my life is surrendered to God, all is well. Let me not grab it back, as though it were in peril in His hand but would be safer in mine!

Obedience is a foundational stepping-stone on the path of God's will.

Each time you turn your life issues over to God and allow Him to lead, you build trust in Him.

A mothers greatest joy in having a child is to give that child fully and freely to God.