Quotes About Surrender

The process is very gradual, you see. At first there's the tainted stage; they know what will eventually happen to them if they go on but they say, 'Oh God, don't do it to me do it again, please, please.'

Christ removed self as the force in His perfect life. It was, 'Not my will, but thine be done.'

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

I had to accept the fact that sometimes things happen that are out of our hands.

I am not very good at planning things, actually, but I believe that things happen when they need to and when they have to.

I'm very religious. I believe that things happen, and you have to go along with them.

When you surrender to God, He makes things happen.

I was a freshman All-American, and I tore my ACL in the third game. But God has a plan for everything. I had a chance to turn away from Him in that situation or draw closer to Him. I decided to draw closer to Him, and came back stronger from it.

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.

Initially, when I first became a Christian and got into ministry, my thought was that God existed to make my life better and to take me to Heaven. Now I realize that it is not about me at all. It is all about God and that He did this to display His plan to restore the Earth to the Garden of Eden state.

From what I could tell, whenever an archangel or a burning bush turns up, it's generally not to say, 'Hey, go out and have a happy and uncomplicated life.

As private parts to the Gods are we, that they may play with us for their own pleasure.

If you are willing to realize that you cannot create your own virtues or changes; if you are willing to feel the pain of emptiness, helplessness, and inadequacy; if you are willing to wait, knowing that of yourself you can do nothing – then you will be facing Reality correctly.

You can say no," he rasped, his breath warming her lips. "But you ought to know I've been thinking about this all day." Crystal savored the heat that slammed through her body as she placed her palms on his chest. Rising on tiptoe, she said softly, "Just do it, Tanner.

A sabedoria suprema não é fazer – remar –, mas não fazer nada, deixar-se levar pelo mar da vida que é mais forte. Eu nunca consegui chegar a lugar algum usando remos. Sempre fui levado por uma força mais forte que a minha razão a praias com que nunca havia sonhado.

When your Daemon is in charge, do not try to think consciously. Drift, wait, and obey.

Offering of Self to God O Lord, we all have things we need to release. With your help we will lay aside all in life that burdens us, leaving behind those things that do not matter and clinging only to the things that do. Amen.

Knock, And He'll open the door Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.

You've been walking the ocean's edge, holding up your robes to keep them dry. You must dive naked under, and deeper under, a thousand times deeper!

Love is a madman, working his wild schemes, tearing off his clothes, running through the mountains....

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

This is how I would die into the love I have for you: as pieces of cloud dissolve in sunlight.

You've gotten drunk on so many kinds of wine. Taste this. It won't make you wild. It's fire. Give up, if you don't understand by this time that your living is firewood.

Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.