Quotes About Surrender

Eternity, I don't know what's right or wrong, good or bad. I may be doing what's right or I may be deceiving myself. So instead, what I'm going to do is give my life to you.

Over the years of much self-hate, I came to realize that whether sexuality was in my life or not, it didn't seem to matter. I just surrendered the whole thing to God.

Go through the things that life gives you to go through, happily. You have to loosen the grip of time, gradually.

There are certain weights in life you simply cannot carry. Your Lord is asking you to set them down and trust Him. What do you say we take God up on His offer?

Whatever we try to control does have control over us and our life.

If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have?

Life is pointless...and that is God's greatest gift.

Somewhere along the way you will have to learn to just Trust Life.

Where magic is concerned, there is always an initial decision, an initial willingness to let it enter your life. If that is not there neither is magic.

I beg You, O my God, to be my life, my ship, my haven. You have made me ascend the cross of Your Son and I struggle to accept it as best I can. I am sure that I shall never come down from it.

If you would have a successful life, less and less try to make things happen and more and more just let things happen.

Sin is blatant mutiny against God, and either sin or God must die in my life.

If I obey Jesus Christ in the seemingly random circumstances of life, they become pinholes through which I see the face of God.

It is a life of FAITH, not of intellect and reason, but a life of knowing Who makes us "go.

We may need to let go of our beliefs and ideas about life in order to have life.

Trust life. If you trust, only then can you drop your knowledge, only then can you put your mind aside.

This very moment you can drop all problems because they are your creation.

Don't get attached to anything.

You have to let life come and go.

somehow, with the passage of time, and the dealines that life imposes, surrending became the right thing to do

You have to sit with your life and feel how you hold it, and be willing for the release to happen. It will happen spontaneously, because it's already so.

As long as you pretend to be self-sufficient, you short-circuit God's power in your life. You need to admit your inadequacy and say, "God, I can't handle this!"

God does not owe me an explanation for what He does in my life. And if I am looking for that to feel better about my suffering, then I'm not going to get it.

I was a slave to something he believed to be silly and superstitious: the idea that all life was worth defending and that nothing justified surrender to the forces of destruction.