Quotes about Surrender

Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart. When we're delighting in him, our desires come in line with his, not his with what we want.

Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.

You can never learn that Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you have.

Trying to do the Lord's work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you.

Don't bother to give God instructions; just report for duty.

Dear Jesus...how foolish of me to have called for human help when You are here.

It is not my ability, but my response to God's ability, that counts.

When we are powerless to do a thing, it is a great joy that we can come and step inside the ability of Jesus

Father sat down on the edge of the narrow bed. "Corrie," he began gently, "when you and I go to Amsterdam-when do I give you your ticket?" I sniffed a few times, considering this. "Why, just before we get on the train." "Exactly. And our wise Father in heaven knows when we're going to need things, too. Don't run out ahead of Him, Corrie. When the time comes that some of us will have to die, you will look into your heart and find the strength you need-just in time.

Today I know that such memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. I know that the experiences of our lives, when we let God use them, become the mysterious and perfect preparation for the work He will give us to do.

And our wise Father in heaven knows when we're going to need things too. Don't run out ahead of Him.

You may never know that JESUS is all you need, until JESUS is all you have.