Quotes About Surrender

What keeps me sane the most is, honestly, the Serenity Prayer.

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

The fact that the Lord can work and act even with insufficient means consoles me, and above all I entrust myself to your prayers.

I often find myself on my knees praying to something or someone to not be in control.

Ordinary Catholics are praying when they do not think they are. They are praying when they offer implicitly all they are doing to God.

When people pray to ask for things they want, isn't it basically an act of mistrust in their god. For if god already has a plan in mind for you, why are you praying to change the plan in the first place?

God can show you just what you need to give, even if you don't know exactly why you're giving it. That's why we should always seek God and prepare to give Him our very best.

There is something about acting that's mysterious and magical because there is only so much I can do to prepare, and then I have to just let go and breathe and believe that it will come through.

'Doing your own thing' and being a Christian is an oxymoron. As Christians, every day we need to be presenting ourselves before the Lord, thanking Him for His mercy and asking Him to make us more like Him by emptying us of our will, so God's will can be done.

The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.

Sometimes when God brings things into an individual's life, it makes them totally depend on Him.

I fear that too many have sadly surrendered their agency to the adversary and are saying by their conduct, 'I care more about satisfying my own desires than I do about bearing the Savior's power to bless others.'

I think there's a lot of similarity between what people try to do with religion with what they want from art. In fact, I very specifically think that they are same thing. Not that religion and art are the same, but that they both tap into the same need we have for surrender.

It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task.

The Buddha taught that we're not actually in control, which is a pretty scary idea. But when you let things be as they are, you will be a much happier, more balanced, compassionate person.

Kill me, Doug. Just kill me now. Put me out of my misery.' My immortality notwithstanding, tyhe sentiment was sincere.

Life, unfortunately, doesn't seem to care what we want

Italian troops from the Assietta and Aosta Divisions surrendered by the thousands, grousing at German betrayal. "One never seemed to be able to do enough to please them," an Italian POW explained.

How we fall into grace. You can't work or earn your way into it. You just fall. It lies below, it lies beyond. It comes to you, unbidden.

you will never get your ducks in a row.

Talk of making a sacrifice is all fine and well until it is your time to be brought to the altar as an offering.

Because they no longer wanted to retain God in their minds and lives, Paul informed us in Romans 1:28 that "God gave them over.

As I accepted my death and dissolution into God's love, the insectoids began feeding on my heart, devouring the feelings of love and surrender. They were interested in emotion. As I was holding on to my last thought - that God is love - they asked, "Even here? Even here?

God is looking for people to use, and if you can get usable, he will wear you out. The most dangerous prayer you can pray is this: 'Use me.'