Quotes About Surrender

A controller doesn't trust his/her ability to live through the pain and chaos of life. There is no life without pain just as there is no art without submitting to chaos.

Do the best that can be done and then . . . be resigned.

Before old age I took care to live well; in old age I take care to die well; but to die well is to die willingly.

All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.

I've never walked to an altar in my life. I gave my life to Christ in my bedroom as a child.

I can'tdo it again,Nick. I can't. And I would rather give my life for you than have you give yours for me.

When you are tired of life, come to Haven. And someone will kill you.

I'm walking this walk and my life has nothing to do with my perception of the world. It's all God! How do I function within His plan?

Someone's running your life. Most of us are on the throne of our own lives. Jesus wants to sit on the throne of your life.

If you experience chronic difficulties in a particular area of your life, there's a strong chance that the root of the problem is a failure to accept reality as it is.

When I gave my life to the Lord, I thought I'd be a preacher.

The most liberating act of free, unconditional grace demands that the recipient give up control of his or her life.

I was afraid that if I surrendered my life over to God, God would tell me not to do those things that I desperately wanted to do.

So it is that the life force may take possession of a man-- so that in the end he may be possessed by something greater, no longer at all belonging to himself.

Everyone starts out with a little self, and it costs everything to move past that little self. It costs the life of the little self to be the life within that's deeper than that little self.

When you lay down your life for what you are after you've died, you're clean.

Stop protesting the hand you've been dealt! Become partners with your life instead of making it an exhausting wrestling match.

Nobody gets to pick what life gives them

I'll let life take me where it will.

It is not by change of circumstances, but by fitting our spirits to the circumstances in which God has placed us, that we can be reconciled to life and duty.

As we, like the abductees, permit ourselves to surrender the illusion of control and mastery of our world, we might discover our place as one species among many whose special gifts include unusual capacities for caring, rational thought, and self-awareness.

This has not meant a blind surrender to the aliens' purposes, but is, rather, the recognition of the need to let go of control in the face of mysterious forces that she cannot usefully oppose.

Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God

what takes place in the act of faith is the destruction and renewal of the self.