Sentences with phrase «surrender to»

There is an alternative mode of cognition that instead of being dominated by the impulse to control is a product of a desire to surrender to the possible mysteriousness of reality.

If we will refuse to surrender to any excuse not to serve — to make other people's problems our problems, to be interruptible, to do what we can and to work together — I believe our best days are ahead of us.

In desperation, he decided to surrender to the impulses of his unconscious.

Above all, they were called to declare the Gospel of compassion and pardon of God that people may see the light, which is in Jesus Christ, and surrender themselves to His service.

For a further reason I refuse to surrender to discouragement: the changed attitude toward war.

The vision claims nothing but worship; and worship is a surrender to the claim for assimilation, urged with the motive force of mutual love.

Perhaps, though, if I risk the surrender to such a possibility I may feel, even here and now, a portion of the peace that comes with the resolution of contradictions into contrasts.

He showed His exclusive surrender to His Father by being willing to drink it, and not go to the Cross which was His goal and desire.

It's made of sinners like us who struggle to get their way and who resist what God wants and we are all in this struggle against God and one another and only when we surrender to the reality of the church do we embrace the church.

These individuals have every moment of every day to surrender to any soldier anywhere.

«12 In our surrender to the symbol we have already acceded to the hierarchical conception.

(These are not Kamlah's actual words, but Bultmann's summary correctly reproduces the substance of Kamlah's argument) «The attitude of historicity is surrender to the totality of that which is, or to God as the source of Being.»

What the world needs to surrender to is thier own hearts, be honest with yourself, we can not obtain peace or joy in our hearts from anything this world can offer or it would be done by now.

and in Jesus, we have pain and pleasure that work as one force towards our surrender to God.

And yet it may be that whatever the danger of the core - group concept, it must be courted in this generation if the church is not to surrender to the principalities and powers that have declared their absolute autonomy apart from the Lordship of Christ.

By our surrender to the stories of promise we would become receivers and transmitters of God's revelation.

Instead, I wanted to surrender myself to Jesus so that he can help me to be like him and I am 100 % sure that he can do it through the Holy Spirit because He is our powerful God.

It is only when we surrender to Him completely, that the Holy Spirit can begin to do that circumcision of the heart, His standard has never changed!

Mary's surrender at the foot of the cross to a plan that could in no way have been part of her own for herself or for her child figures as the centerpiece of her proposal of a Catholic feminism, which locates the foremost value of women not in forms of service to others (marriage, motherhood) but in service to God, in the decision to surrender to his plan.

The point are they really Christians that don't know their God, surrender to His decisions and trust in them??

But beyond this more worthily athletic attitude involved in doing and being, there is, in the desire of not having, something profounder still, something related to that fundamental mystery of religious experience, the satisfaction found in absolute surrender to the larger power.

All it takes is to believe and trust in Jesus he forgives you despite your unbelief you have a choice to carry on with your life and live for yourself or surrender to his will that is where your struggle is.You must make a decision and do nt listen to the enemy.Once you have made that decision there is no turning back.

So to interrupt the cycle, we need to surrender to the process, to lean into the pain.

«And I had gone away and I was running around on the track one day and I was just praying and often this is what I know happens - when you can surrender it to the power that's greater than yourself, whatever it is you've been pushing up against, whatever it is you've been fighting, you release it to that which is greater, which is God and things show up.»

It all makes sense in the light of the Son's surrender to the Father's will, just as the suffering we ourselves endure before the hoped - for glory only makes sense within our own sonship and submission to the Father.

Chrissy from what you have written i believe you have always had a sensitive ear to God that shows obedience and godliness that is not the norm.You must of had godly influence from parents or someone close to the family.Its shows wisdom beyond your years what you know instinctively has taken me years to learn as my heart was stubborn and hard hearted.By your words i see humility and surrender to the Lord that is a powerful testimony may he continue to strengthen you in your Christian walk and may you be a blessing and a witness to others who do nt know the Lord.It shows God has no boundaries he is able to reach people in any situation if they have ears to hear.brentnz

I'm not sure how the Christian and AA surrender to a higher power / god works with a rational thinking atheist who realizes that there is no such thing.

While Mother Teresa's «professions of self - abnegating surrender to God are difficult to comprehend within the rational choice framework,» a more careful examination leads to the conclusion that she «is a calculating, profit - seeking religious entrepreneur.»

As a direct result of this positive surrender to life, the person begins to develop feelings of genuine self - esteem (the opposite of narcissism), rooted in trustful and mutually nurturing relationships.

The second way was the way that came, not without considerable resistance, to surrender to the sobriquet neoconservative.

Dissect it, reflect on it and spend time alone and surrender it to God.

The unexpected spectacle of endless rows upon rows of men and women simply dying rather than surrender to the will of an aggressor must ultimately melt him and his soldiery.32

Surrender to it.

Accepting the symbolically vague nature of religion is not a surrender to softheadedness, but an implicit affirmation of the transcendence of the mystery that no human expression can capture adequately.

It's like a herald in an army going out and giving the conditions of surrender to the general of the opposing army.

We could hardly subject it to our verificational control, but would instead be required humbly to surrender ourselves to it in order to encounter its content.

Jesus did teach that we should not seek revenge or resort to violence — two «wrongs» do not make a «right» and we can't do the Lord's work with the devil's tools; but that is quite different from devaluing ourselves as an excuse to surrender to fear when abused.

And here more than at any other point we are incited to a response — a response which is not ours individually but ours as a fellowship of human brethren, a response which is manifested in our returning commitment to God in Christ, our thankful effort by His Grace to conform to His Will, and our selfless surrender to Him in worship.

So powerful that Jesus said «Give everything you have away... and follow me» - the true meaning of love of God and one's neighbor: total devotion and surrender to God.

I pray you meet him, he's right there waiting for you to surrender to him and accept his love.

Bruce If you want to appreciate art reason won't get you there either, but the emotional surrender to music, or an oil canvas, or even a great novel does not make the fictional subjects of these things actually real.

Jeremiah was so certain that Nebuchadnezzar was Yahweh's instrument that he advised surrender to the Babylonians.

By the revival of religious emotions, by surrender to God, by commitment to an unselfish life of honesty, purity, unselfishness and love, by a renewal of the practice of confession and by the sharing of religious experiences, by reliance upon divine guidance and by a revivification of first - century immediacy and spirituality, it proposes, and claims to solve, the problems of the religious crisis in a practical manner.

Peter Berger, in his extraordinary little book, Rumor of Angels, notes that «the theological surrender to the alleged demise of the supernatural defeats itself in precisely the measure of its success.

Therefore, we must HUMBLE ourselves and surrender to Jesus to take our broken hearts and HEAL them.

Until a person is willing to let go of everything they think they know and surrender to the truth of life no matter what form it takes, no matter how inconvenient to how they want the world to be, they will only be living with and conversing in limited perspectives.

Because most people in this world would rather die than surrender to His will for them!

They trust in their own radical adherence to the letter of the law instead of radical surrender to the mercy of God.

I refuse to surrender to discouragement.

To view freedom as a privilege is to surrender to the absurd ideology that man is free by nature, that he is made for freedom, and that only minor obstacles like economic or political constraint prevent him from being fully free.