Quotes About Surrender

May God bless you and give you what you need because what you want will get you in trouble.

the Son is perfectly glorified by being perfectly abandoned by the Father.

I don't mind having to die now, for I see that he is the cause of my death is about to share the same fate.

Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?

They'd been married for years, and he wanted her to give up the last thread of cover so she would stand before him nude and he could make love to her entire skin. Well, of course that made her head fall off. Of course.

Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened. When you sit, let it be. What you walk, let it be. Grasp at nothing. Resist nothing. Ajahn Chah

Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.

Unfortunately for our esteem, societies of the West are not known for their conduciveness to the surrender of pretensions, to the acceptance of age or fat, let alone poverty and obscurity.

They haven't just had sex; they have translated their feelings – appreciation, tenderness, gratitude and surrender – into a physical act.

When one is sad, it is lovely to lie in the warmth of one's bed, and there, with all effort and struggle at an end, even perhaps with one's head under the blankets, surrender completely to wailing, like branches in the autumn wind.

God doesn't do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, Can I be excused the Crucifixion? No!

You empower what you fight. You withdraw power from what you release.

Struggle is not an act; it is an attitude. If we believe that we must fight to get what we want, we will toil over everything we do. If we recognize, however, that the universe works more efficiently for us when we approach it with ease, life will serve us in miraculous ways.

When you finally give up striving, you will be left with what you have been striving for.

Everything that happens ultimately serves us. An experience might not appear to be perfect according to the ego's plan, but it may be supremely perfect according to Spirit's plan.

Control what you can, but flow with what you can't.

When you pray for things, you are really seeking the feeling the thing brings you. Cultivate the feeling, and the thing becomes secondary. Then it will come spontaneously and effortlessly.

Si has de luchar para conseguir o conservar algo, es que no te pertenece y estás mejor sin ello.

What comes of itself, let it come. What goes of itself, let it go.

Then I realize that even while I was asleep at the wheel of my life, a Higher Power was guiding and caring for me.

Well, refusing to continue to fight to the death (of your relationship) is hardly surrendering. Rather, if defeating your partner is also self-defeating, then stopping the fight is both showing the courage to do what is needed to survive and the courage to engage in self-preservation without harming your partner.

No, the Indian mutineers may have surrendered, but I did not. If I work with the British, it is because I no longer feel even Indian. The sea, now, is my only nation.

The great evangelist Dwight Moody once said, "When I was a young Christian, I thought that God kept His gifts on shelves and the best gifts were on the highest shelves and I would have to reach up. I learned later the best gifts are on the lowest shelf and I had to stoop down." In

By projecting ourselves always into the hereafter we miss out on the present, on knowing ourselves and the richness of the current moment. By trying to control what we can't, we all but guarantee frustration and disappointment.