Quotes about Surrender

If you find more joy in serving God than yourself, you know that grace has entered your door, because only grace has the power to rescue you from you.

Only if God IS ultimate reality, can he be our unconditional concern; only then can he be the object of surrender, obedience, and assent. Faith in anything which has only preliminary reality is idolatrous.

If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it." — LUKE 9:23-24

Grace for the case is grace for your condition.

The best way to start praying, therefore, is actually to stop praying. To pause. To be still. To put down your prayer list and surrender your own personal agenda. To stop talking at God long enough to focus on the wonder of who he actually is. To 'be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him'.

So I'm waiting for God, and God is waiting for me to see if I am really waiting for him, and not just wanting things from him.

God is mobilising an army, but it is a broken army that marches on its knees.

I'd rather be unhappy and know that God is with me, than be happy, comfortable and unsure of God's presence.

What if the call to pray is a call to bleed as well as to receive blessing?

Lord, help me let go of control. Help me die. Help me trust.

I need a place to let go and fall back from my familiar patterns and trust God to catch me.

Paradoxically, the challenges of our day-to-day existence are sustained reminders that our life of faith simply must have its center somewhere other than in our ability to hold it together in our minds.