Quotes about Surrender

Your rest is not to be found in figuring your life out, but in trusting the One who has it all figured out for your good and his glory.

True Christianity is always a matter of the submission of the heart to God, something that only rescuing grace can produce.

You have no reason for fear when you answer God's call; you have every reason to be afraid when you put your life in your own hands.

need grace, and when you forget how much you need grace, you quit seeking the rescue and strength that only grace can give.

In moments when you wish you knew what you can't know, there is rest to be found. There is One who knows.

Whatever sits on the other side of your "if-only" is where you are looking for life, peace, joy, hope,

He placed himself under broken and unjust human rule in order to liberate us from self-rule and transform us into people who celebrate and willingly submit to his rule.

whenever you ask creation to do what only the Creator can do, you are on your way to addiction.

Humility means the willingness to look in the mirror of God's Word and being glad that whatever we see there has already been covered by the blood of Jesus.

You can face your weakness with joy because you know that you have been given grace for that weakness; grace that is not a thing, but a person—the Holy Spirit, who makes you the place where he dwells in power.

if you are God's child, the life force that energizes your thoughts, desires, words, and actions is no longer you; it's Christ!

God is not working to deliver to you your personal definition of happiness. If you're on that agenda page, you are going to be disappointed with God and you are going to wonder if he loves you. God is after something better—your holiness, that is, the final completion of his redemptive work in you.