Quotes About Surrender

What would happen if you let go? You'd have everything you want. But you're afraid. You're afraid if you let go there will be nothing there to catch you and you'll lose control. Yet, you never really had control.

Those who choose God 'have' God

Here is the pinnacle of happiness! Blessedness. A state of being where God is living 'His' life through you. Those who have risen to this level of virtue desire nothing from the world because they already have everything in God.

Have you forgotten God? Here is the advice Moses gave to those seeking his counsel. He knew, that for most problems, the solution lay in surrendering to God. To this day, it's still the sanest strategy.

Tired of holding on yet? Stop striving and put God before the world. You'll have everything you want, minus the heartache. Don't fight the world. Don't try and overcome it. Forgive it.

It takes most a lifetime to discover this great truth... we find our greatest joy in God. After years of fighting the world, the tortured adult is ready to surrender. Ready to 'give up.' Ready to... come home.

Exchange the burden of the world, for the peace of God.

The way to freedom is not with force but with love. Do not fight the world. Do not battle it. Forgive it. Then move towards the freedom that can only be found in God

Who are the happiest people? Those who hear the word of God and obey. They are happy to bend the knee, happy to turn it over to God because they know, it's that, or carry the weight of the world.

Yet not by Vedas, nor from sacrifice, Nor penance, nor gift-giving, nor with prayer Shall any so behold, as thou hast seen! Only by fullest service, perfect faith, And uttermost surrender am I known And seen, and entered into, Indian Prince! Who doeth all for Me; who findeth Me In all; adoreth always; loveth all Which I have made, and Me, for Love's sole end That man, Arjuna! unto Me doth wend.

Surrender your ego to enjoy peace of mind and the beauty of equality and harmony.

True courage knows fear. It knows how to fear that which should be feared. Honest people value life passionately, they hang on to it like a precious jewel. And they pick the right time and place to surrender it, to die with dignity.

Is loving someone enough? he wondered. Or is God like Stromboli, making us think we're in control of our fate while turning us all into jackasses?

Or the angry ones. Holding their heads oh no like a virus is taking over. My mind! Like it's such a big deal. Minds are always being taken over. Succumb, don't resist. Because we do get to choose what we are succumbing to. We create worlds out of what we put into our heads. I don't know about you. It's why I read.

Am I supposed to want you this much? Nadia. You are supposed to have me anytime, anywhere, any way you wish.

With those thousand deaths come a thousand births. Ten thousand, if we're alive enough to notice. Drink whatever comes to you, death or life or both together, drink it down, whether the draught be sweet or bitter. If you refuse the one, you won't be able to taste the other.

All that you used to avoid will turn itself to great sweetness and exceeding joy.

Paris . . . is loath to surrender itself to people who are in a hurry; it belongs to the dreamers, to those capable of amusing themselves in its streets without regard to time when urgent business requires their presence elsewhere. —

We must all face an unpalatable fact that we have, too often, a tendency to skim over; we proceed on the assumption that all men want freedom. This is not as true as we would like it to be. There are many men and women who are far happier when they have relinquished their freedom, when someone else guides them, makes their decisions for them, takes the responsibility for them and for their actions. They don't want to make up their minds. They don't want to stand on their own feet.

I had taken away my own time and added it to his to make him more powerful.

If she wants Marcello Solara, I will resign myself. I love her so much that if she's happy with someone else I will withdraw and between us everything will remain as it is now. But if she wants me--if she wants me--there's no help for it, you must give her to me.

But at times, as if a drug had flooder her veins, Lila seemed unable to bear the order she had imposed on herself.

Blijft het feit dat ik mijn hand opstak en zei dat het menselijke lot zo duidelijk aan de blinde razernij van het toeval was blootgesteld dat jezelf aan een God toevertrouwen hetzelfde was als plaatjes verzamelen terwijl de stad brandt in het hellevuur.

Y si morir fuera un querer despertar y un no despertar nunca?