#surrender

No one should be surprised at the difficulty of faith, if there is some part of his life where he is consciously resisting or disobeying the commandment of Jesus. Is there some part of your life which you are refusing to surrender at his behest, some sinful passion, maybe, or some animosity, some hope, perhaps your ambition or your reason? ... How can you hope to enter into communion with him when at some point in your life you are running away from him? ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#christianity #communion #doubt #faith #forgiveness

You cannot simply read the Quran,not if you take it seriously.You either have surrendered to it already or you fight it. It attacks tenaciously,directly,personally; it debates,criticizes,shames and challenges. From the outset it draws the line of battle, and I was on other side. ↗

— Jeffrey Lang

#humanity #inspirational #jeffrey #kindness #lang

This isn’t working, Brooke. Don’t get me wrong, the sex is amazing. But it’s turning into something else, and I need to know where I’m standing. I need to know whether we’ll ever be together. ↗

— J.C. Reed

#love #quotes #romance #surrender-your-love #inspirational

No man is fit to be a Senator... unless he is willing to surrender his political life for great principle. ↗

— Henry F. Ashurst

#great #great principle #his #life #man

The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender. ↗

— William Booth

#his #man #measure #power #surrender

The inspiration came suddenly again to surrender to the Mother. It was quite unexpected: And so somehow I made a surrender to the Mother. Then I had an experience of overwhelming love. Waves of love sort of flowed into me. ↗

— Bede Griffiths

#came #experience #flowed #had #i

I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions. ↗

— Enoch Powell

#i #life #my life #responsibility #surrender

Freedom comes when you see the built-in contradiction of trying to manipulate something that is going right to begin with.... Stop trying to steer the river. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#river-surrender #freedom

You cannot fulfil God's purposes for your life while focusing on your own plans. ↗

— Rick Warren

#surrender #life

It is easy to use the phrase 'God's will for my life' as an excuse for inaction or even disobedience. ... My hope is that instead of searching for 'God's will for my life' each of us would learn to seek hard after 'the Spirit's leading in my life today.' May we learn to pray for an open and willing heart, to surrender to the Spirit's leading with that friend, child, spouse, circumstance, or decision in our lives right now. ↗

— Francis Chan

#excuse #god-s-will #holy-spirit #inaction-disobedience #making-decisions