Quotes About Surrender

Do your best. And then let life do the rest.

Before we can strengthen believers or win the lost, we must be converted from the self-life to the Christ-life. . . "Not I, but Christ."

Don't force anything. Let life be a deep let go.

Everything in life is most fundamentally a gift. And you receive it best and you live it best by holding it with very open hands.

Have no judgments about your life, no expectations, and give up the need to know what happens tomorrow.

To surrender now is to pay the expensive ogre twice. Ancient woods of my blood, dash down to the nut of the seas. If I take to burn or return this world which is each man's work." ? Dylan Thomas, Collected Poems

To surrender now is to pay the expensive ogre twice. Ancient woods of my blood, dash down to the nut of the seas if I take to burn or return this world which is each man's work.

Even in our own lives, there are times when we want something so much that we cannot let go of the thought of it. Whether that is an object, a person or a state of mind, whatever it is, we long for it, but it remains out of reach. Then, at the very point where we totally give up and let go of it, we get what we have been wishing for.

When you have no hope, you have nothing to fear, nothing to be ashamed of, and nothing to lose.

He didn't believe in God anymore and yet he still wished that God would help him.

At some point in this generation, "Take up your cross and follow me" changed into, "Come to Jesus and he'll make your life better.

If I throw out a boathook from the boat and catch hold of the shore and pull, do I pull the shore to me, or do I pull myself to the shore? Prayer is not pulling God to my will, but the aligning of my will to the will of God.

One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.

Miss Abbott, don't worry over me. Some people are born not to do things. I'm one of them.

I'm thankful it's into your hands I fell.

These are times, moreover, when we shall learn again to make those pleas with which the Lord's Prayer begins: Hallowed be thy name; Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done. By these we learn to forget ourselves and our personal condition and to hold them as of little account. How are we to remain steadfast so long as we remain so important to ourselves? - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Bir kere teslim olursam ihtiyarlay?p ölürüm. Biri bana sar?l?rsa ayakta duramam. Çünkü… Çünkü kalbim ablukada kal?r o vakit. Dü?mana teslim olmak daha kolay. Onurun k?r?l?r en fazla, ama beni seven birine teslim olursam… Esir dü?erim.

Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.

Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.

You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.

Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.

Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death.

Always say "yes" to the present moment. What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to what already is? what could be more insane than to oppose life itself, which is now and always now? Surrender to what is. Say "yes" to life — and see how life suddenly starts working for you rather than against you.

God is more interested in our finding Him in life's struggles than protecting us from life's struggles.