Edith Stein Quotes

I am totally in the hands of the Lord.

Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender

Let me not fuss and fret at my incompetence but be still and know that Thou art God.

Put yourself in God’s hands and you can’t go wrong.

I'd realize it's not worth our time to worry. You do your best, and God will put the right people in your path.

I've done a lot of things in my life that I'm not proud of.

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

I say a prayer several times a day about what I can control and what I can't control.

You are accepted. You are accepted, accepted by that which is greater than you, and the name of which you do not know. Do not ask for the name now; perhaps you will find it later. Do not try to do anything now; perhaps later you will do much. Do not seek for anything; do not perform anything; do not intend anything. Simply accept the fact that you are accepted!

Forgive me now - tomorrow I may no longer feel guilty.

Forgive yourself for the decisions you have made, the ones you still call mistakes when you tuck them in at night.

True freedom from fear consists of totally resigning one's life into the hands of the Lord.

Today, I will let go. I will stop trying to control everything. I will stop trying to make myself be and do better, and I will let myself be.

There is but one way to tranquility of mind and happiness, and that is to account no external things thine own, but to commit all to God.

What does God require of us? Our part is to believe. Our work is to trust the Lord. His requirement is that we let go and let God.

There are a few things that I regret, but nothing that I need to forget.

Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God

I have a word for you. I know your whole life story. I know every skeleton in your closet. I know every moment of sin, shame, dishonesty and degraded love that has darkened your past. Right now I know your shallow faith, your feeble prayer life, your inconsistent discipleship. And my word is this: I dare you to trust that I love you just as you are, and not as you should be. Because you’re never going to be as you should be.

Worrying is trying to figure out what to do to save yourself rather than trusting in God for deliverance.

Forgiveness means that I continually am willing to forgive the other person for not being God — for not fulfilling all my needs. I, too, must ask forgiveness for not being able to fulfill other people's needs. … The interesting thing is that when you can forgive people for not being God, then you can celebrate that they are a reflection of God.

If you believe in God you get to the point where (you feel) "Yeah, you know what, God forgave my sins but I still have to forgive myself."

Obligations, hatreds, injuries; what did I expect my memories to be? I was forgetting remorse. Now I have a complete past.

the lesson of the falling leaves the leaves believe such letting go is love such love is faith such faith is grace such grace is god i agree with the leaves

We do not have to know how to forgive. All we have to do is be willing to forgive. The Universe will take care of the how.