Quotes About Surrender

Resistance is useless.

Forgetting oneself is opening oneself

If you want to travel the Way of Buddhas and Zen masters, then expect nothing, seek nothing, and grasp nothing.

A:I have no need to call it anything. I simply know that I am here; that all is good and well. I have what I need. I know what I know, and I will do what I am told. But you may call it any word which is good. That will be acceptable to me. J:Okay.

No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again.

There was no good or bad connected with anything any more.......He regretted nothing; wanted nothing. He was simply existing, and the way things were was the way they had always been and always would be. He didn't care any more. He did what had to be done, and endured in a timeless present, without past or future.

So, yield to His entreaty. Give in to His love and, please, please say to the Savior, "Just hold me. Tighter.

You had to deal with a situation you did not want. Once you are defeated, you have to do what you are told.

God is life. God is life in action. The best way to say, "I love you, God," is to live your life doing your best. The best way to say, "Thank you, God," is by letting go of the past and living in the present moment, right here and now. Whatever life takes away from you, let it go. When you surrender and let go of the past, you allow yourself to be fully alive in the moment. Letting go of the past means you can enjoy the dream that is happening right now.

When you start to "fall down the stairs" there is that moment when you realize that you have no control over what is going on. You simply experience the plunge and see where it takes you.

No man's plenum ... is impervious to the awl of God's will.

In the cab going downtown, Doug believed he now understood the sensations felt by a person slowly sinking into the grasp of an octopus. Play dead, he told himself. But how?

May knew John had a very bad tendency, when things got unusually difficult, to sink with an almost sensuous pleasure into a warm bath of despair. Once you've handed the reins over to despair, to mix a metaphor just a teeny bit, your job is done. You don't have to sweat it any more, you've taken yourself out of the game. Despair is the bench, and you are warming it.

Total consecration to St. Joseph means you make a formal act of filial entrustment to your spiritual father so that he can take care of your spiritual well-being and lead you to God.

If you have an overdeveloped ego, you are not scared of surrender.

To follow God, one must be a little "out of their mind" (and "into their Spirit").

Let us therefore give ourselves to God with a great desire to begin to live thus, and beg Him to destroy in us the life of the world of sin, and to establish His life within us.

The bottom line in the Christian life is obedience and most people don't even like the word.

Our journey is about being more deeply involved in life, and yet less attached to it.

Our ultimate aim in life is not to be healthy, wealthy, prosperous, or problem free. Our ultimate aim in life is to bring glory to God.

The greatest test of life is obedience to God.

Where you stand, where you are, that's what your life is right there, regardless of how painful it is or how enjoyable it is. That's what it is.

'One new perception, one fresh thought, one act of surrender, one change of heart, one leap of faith, can change your life forever.'

If you want this life to stop breaking your heart, stop giving your heart to this life.