Quotes about Surrender

Things don't always go the way we want. I've come to realize that some things just aren't meant to be.

It is not a matter of how many loaves we have in our hands, but whether or not God has blessed them.

The author tells a story wherein a missionary friend of his was invited by unbelievers on a train ride to play cards. The friend declined, saying that he did not bring his hands with him. He explained to the astonished group that the hands attached to what they saw as his body belonged to the Lord, and he was thereby able to explain the Gospel.

God must bring us to a point--I cannot tell you how it will be, but He will do it--where, through a deep and dark experience, our natural power is touched and fundamentally weakened, so that we no longer dare trust ourselves.

If you have not experienced the death of self, your spiritual life will have little real progress.

The daily life of the Christian can be summed up in one word: receive.

Here is invariably a spiritual fact: Our spirit is released according to the degree of our brokenness.

He who has ascended the cross and refuses to drink the vinegar mingled with gall is the one who knows the Lord. Many go up to the cross rather reluctantly, still thinking of drinking vinegar mingled with gall to alleviate their pain. All who say—"The cup which the Father has given me, shall I not drink it?"—will not drink the cup of vinegar mingled with gall.

How many of us dare not use our time or money or talents as we would, because we realise they are the Lord's, not ours?

Many Christians are unaware how drastically the cross must work so that ultimately their natural power for living may be denied.

For Christianity begins not with a big do, but with a big done.

Emotion must go through the cross (Matt. 10.38-39) in order to destroy its fiery nature, with its confusion, and to subject it totally to the spirit. The cross aims to accord the spirit authority to rule over every activity of emotion.