Quotes About Surrender

life doesn't always give you what you ask for, but it always gives you what you need.

Give up the drop, become the ocean.

life and allow it to take you where you are meant to go—it has your highest interests in mind.

Gracias a mis experiencias y a las lecciones personales en el curso del camino he aprendido que liderar mi vida es también prescindir del férreo control que mantenía sobre mi realidad. Todos debemos prescindir de esa adicción tan común a saber con antelación cómo se va a desarrollar nuestra vida.

Pride was a little thing to sacrifice if it would give him back the joy that had been taken away from him.

Trust—always—that life has your back—even if what's unfolding makes no sense.

If you want to make God laugh, then tell him your plans!

Nor can man raise himself above himself and humanity, for he cannot see but with his eyes nor grasp except with his grip. He will raise himself if God extraordinarily gives him his hand; he will raise himself, abandoning and renouncing his own means, and letting himself be lifted and sustained by purely celestial ones. <>

The important thing, Father Pavel had said, is not our belief, but His grace. We refuse His gifts out of meanness, for we fear the cost of them. And yes, the cost is everything.

I'm all right now," I said, "but leave me alone. I'm going down to the river to bathe." I took seven steps, and then someone must have pulled out the plug, because I gurgled, everything swirled, and the world ran away down the drain.

All right. You wanted me," I stated, "and now you have me, heaven help you.

There has never been a moment since Lee surrendered that I would not have gone more than halfway to meet the Southern people in a spirit of conciliation. But they have never responded to it.

Tens of thousands of onlookers gaped in amazement as the shattered British troops marched out of Yorktown and, to the tune of an old English ballad, "The World Turned Upside Down

Pain and suffering are frequently the means by which we become motivated to finally surrender to God and to seek the cure of Christ.

I've noticed that two prayers in particular are among the riskiest a person can pray. [...] "God, open my eyes to who you really are, and then I'll open my life to you." [...] "God, here I am, fully submitted to you; use me as you have never used me before.

we can't be filled with the power of God until we let go of the false pretense that we can get by on our own.

even if I were to actually lose everything - my house, my finances, my friends, my reputation, my position - it really wouldn't matter in the end, because I would still have God's grace. I would still be the Father's adopted and beloved son. And that would be enough.

Pride is the rope God allows us all.

How could we not believe the Lord would guide us? How could we not have faith? For the foundation had been laid in prayer and sorrow. Since that fearful night, Dad has responded with the almost impossible work of belief. He had burned with repentence as though his own hand had fired the gun. He had laid up prayer as if with a trowel.

I feel like a child. But I learn a little something every day. It's like a whole new way of living. It's a willingness to give up control. To make a commitment and have faith it'll work out.

If you don't become the ocean, you'll be seasick every day.

It's hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender

a kite is a victim you are sure of. you love it because it pulls.

Followership starts with Jesus, stays with Jesus, goes with Jesus, and ends with Jesus.