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Self-Surrender: Quotations from Burning Words

Surrender yourselves then to be led and disposed of just as God pleases, with respect both to your outward and inward state.— MADAME GUYON

O Lord! take my heart, for I cannot give it; and when Thou hast it, O! keep it, for I cannot keep it for Thee; and save me in spite of myself, for Jesus Christ's sake. -— FENELON

If we love Him infinitely more than we do ourselves, we make an unconditional sacrifice of ourselves to His good pleasure, desiring only to love Him and to forget ourselves. He who thus loses his soul shall find it again with eternal life.— FENELON

There is but one way in which God should be loved, and that is to take no step except with Him and for Him, and to follow with a generous self-abandonment every thing which He requires. Love so amazing, so Divine, Demands my soul, my life, my all.— FENELON

We must surrender our whole being to Christ Jesus, and cease to live any longer in ourselves, that He may become our life; that being dead, our life may be hid with Christ in God."— MADAME GUYON

،، Here it is that the Spirit teaches us all truth; for all truth is eminently contained in this sacrifice of love, where the soul strips itself of every thing to present it to God.— FENELON

We have communion in Christ's sufferings as we die with Him unto self, and rise with Him to our proper life - the life of selfsurrender to the will of God.— RICHARD FULLER

"Cheerfully and gratefully I lay myself and all I am or own at the feet of Him who redeemed me with His precious blood, engaging to follow Him, bearing the cross He lays upon me." This is the least I can do, and I do it while my heart lies broken and bleeding at His feet.— ELIZABETH PRENTISS

I have just put my soul as a blank into the hand of Jesus, my Redeemer, and desired Him to write on it what He pleases; I know it will be His image.— WHITFIELD

O God, the creature knows not to what end Thou hast made Him; teach him, and write in the depths of his soul that the clay must suffer itself to be shaped at the will of the potter.— FENELON