Quotes About Surrender

President Ezra Taft Benson (1899–1994), thirteenth President of the Church, taught, "Men and women who turn their lives over to God will discover that He can make a lot more out of their lives than they can.

The moon is my sun, the night is my day, Blood is my life, and you are my prey.

My weakness, that is, my quadriplegia, is my greatest asset because it forces me into the arms of Christ every single morning when I get up.

When we have nothing to cling to as our own and cease thinking of ourselves as people who must defend privileges, we can open ourselves freely to others with the faithful expectation that our strength will manifest itself in our shared weakness.

When you go looking for rescue, you end up trapped in your own weakness.

I thought surrendering was a weakness; instead it's the strongest thing a man or a woman can ever do, to acknowledge our Creator who's in control of all things.

I'm not saying I'm wealthy. The best thing that ever happened to me in that context was turning everything over to Rita. And the business people. I am on a leash. That's not the end of the world.

'Weary Willie' is very real to me. He is a man who has given up. The boat has gone and left him. The cards are stacked against him. He's content to make out with what he's got. He knows he'll go no further.

The FARC has given up their arms. They are now a political party. They are now doing politics, which is what a peace process was all about.

I have got immense love from the poor people. What more do I need? I don't think of death and ailment. Life is in the hands of God.

We must accept all of God's will for us, not just those portions that happen to appeal and bring instant gratification and pleasure to us.

He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.

I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.

I'm not the only person who has something in their life they can't control.

You can't control everything that comes to you.

I never control a film. The film controls me.

I used to run away from the cops and now I stand and chat with them about my art. I'm older now and it is harder to run away from them. It would be embarrassing for an older man to get arrested by someone half your age. So I gave up running.

Everything I do in life I put in the hands of God, my creator.

You have to force yourself to give up and to move onto something else. That's the way you grow as a writer, by trying new things and tackling new subjects. But it's difficult. There's part of you that doesn't want to give up because you realize that, in some way, you're surrendering.

Every time I start chasing my tail, and I'm trying to control all these elements of my universe, I pray, 'I'm not in control of any of this. I can just do the best I can. Please guide me. Please help me figure how I can move through this in the way You would have me.'

All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.

God, if there is a God, take my soul, if I have a soul.

It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.

I stayed focused, and I never surrendered, and now I've been blessed. now I take care of my mother, my father, and my entire whole family.