Quotes About Surrender

Your thoughts have given up, finally.

She starts to get used to being sacrificed

If I drop both swords and rip off the blindfold, I still can't leave, for I can't leave this world except internally.

I'm the one into whose arms you fall when you fall through all of space.

you kill me, but here I'll be, dis- passionate, outside time.

I don't have a casual life, but exist to be possessed by misery, grace, or laughter.

And so he goes on dwindling away maybe through too much prayer is now too rarefied to touch or settle anywhere

Three people in the snow getting rid of themselves breath by breath

Our Way is called a Narrow Way often a lonely road a road of trusting uncertainty ... I need A safe space—no matter how small— to get off the road till my vision is clear till I can see through the tears till hands steady against the fears ... I need To remember that my life is hidden in the cleft of the Rock that to surrender is to stay, to still, to remember love always makes a Way ...

Most of the time I liked being in charge of my life, thrived on it, in fact. But occasionally, when I was tired or unhappy. I'd find myself thinking how nice it would be to let someone else run the show, at least for a while.

Even as I hold you, I am letting you go.

On the cross, leadership dies. On the cross, success dies. On the cross, skills die, and excellence dies. All of my strengths—nailed to the cross. All of my weaknesses—nailed to the cross. All of my yearnings for bigger and better, for anything other than Christ himself—nailed to that same cross.

God needs nothing, asks nothing, and demands nothing, like the stars. It is life with God which demands these things. . . . You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that the darkness is necessary. But the stars neither require nor demand it." — ANNIE DILLARD1

But from this side of life, I can see how every moment, every experience, every pivot, even my supposed missteps have been life's way of getting me where I have always been meant to go. Rather than resisting the current, I've learned to surrender.

Lasciate ogni speranza voi ch'entrate. (Abandon all hope, all ye who enter here)

Faith without love is to be in people's bondage. Love without faith, is to be in your own bondage.

Oh, Lord, bestow me with the power, that as much as I love her, I extinguish the need of loving her within me.

There's a time in your life where you just have to let go, no matter how much you want and need to hold on.

The Nazis have given up

Prayer is an acknowledgment that our need of God's help is not partial but total.

You have me, Legs. All of me.

And now, in your current circumstances, do you remain loyal to our former sovereign?" "I am alone, monsieur. My loyalty is to Christ, into whose hands I commit my life.

The most important lesson that I have learned is to trust God in every circumstance. Lots of times we go through different trials and following God's plan seems like it doesn't make any sense at all. God is always in control and he will never leave us.

In the name of Jesus Christ" (suggesting that the words to be spoken are not his own but, rather, are Christ's words and Christ's will).