83 Quotes by Craig D. Lounsbrough about Surrender
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Although it pains me, I must admit that I have never found what I ‘need.’ And I am in this place because long ago I took it upon myself to decide what I ‘want’ to need, verses surrendering to what I ‘need’ to need. And thankfully I have realized that God made Christmas everything that I ‘want,’ but more so He made it everything that I ‘need.
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Realizing that ‘possession’ is an illusion finally liberates us to possess something that is never an illusion and is always liberating; and that is the reality that we are God’s cherished possession. Therefore, life is not about acquiring possessions. Rather, it’s about being one.
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Surrendering is intentionally laying down the power I possess. And have I considered that the power I lay down is often more powerful than that which I’m laying it down in front of? Therefore, I would be wise to recognize that surrender is less the absence of power and more the presence of fear.
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Of myself, I am not the end of anything. But in God’s hands, I can be the beginning of many things.
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I will either die at the hands of myself or live in the hands of God.
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The greatest cause involves the decision not to make myself the greatest cause.
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The darkness might hide things really well, but it doesn’t have the power to make them disappear. And when it comes to our dreams, we might want to remember that.
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It is the aversion to fear that kills the greatest of dreams. And until the aversion to the death of our dreams outpaces the fears that kill them, what we could achieve will only be a dream.
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We have cast surrender as weak. However, if surrender to God makes us everything we could never be on our own, then weakness would, in fact, be the unwillingness to surrender.
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