Quotes About Surrender

I said to myself, "Marianne. Next time you're down on your knees, why don't you just stay there?

Dear God, Please free me from false appetites and take away my pain. Take from me my addicted self, and show me who I am. Unchain my heart so I might live a freer life at last. Amen

Cuando nos entregamos a Dios, nos desprendemos de nuestro apego a la forma en que suceden las cosas afuera y empezamos a preocuparnos más por lo que pasa en nuestro interior.

I surrender my attachment to lesser things.

For the One who sourced the writing will also lead the meeting, if she will let Him! In A Course in Miracles, it's written that we should be less concerned about our own readiness, and more consistently aware of His.

Midlife is about surrendering things that no longer matter, not because our lives are in decline, but because they're on an incline

The Holy Spirit tells us, "Don't try to purify yourself before coming to me.

Cuando nos aceptamos tal como somos, y en el lugar donde estamos, disponemos de mayor energía para entregársela a la vida. No perdemos tiempo intentando cambiar las cosas.

I free the universe from my efforts to control it.

How different my life will be if I let go, allowing the universe to do its dance without my constant interference. Today I release the thought that I know what is best—for myself, for the world, or for anyone in it. I relax into the patterns of a divinely orchestrated universe, asking only to be guided where I can best fit in and be used in service to love's will.

In fact, ambitious tension actually limits our ability to succeed because it keeps us in a state of contraction emotionally and physically. It seems to give us energy but doesn't really.  Like the white sugar of mental health, there's a short high followed by a crash.  The cultivation of mental rest or surrender is like eating healthy food.  It doesn't give us an immediate rush, but over time it provides a lot more energy.

El ego se disipa y desaparece cuando lo entregamos a las manos de Dios. Son heridas, no maldad, lo que tenemos

Dear God, I surrender to you all my thoughts about money, I surrender to you my debts, I surrender to you my wealth. Open my mind to receive abundantly. Channel your abundance through me in a way that serves the world. Amen

Today I will not burden myself by thinking I need to run the universe. I needn't control anyone or anything. I need only to show up fully with my heart and in my excellence.

Until your knees finally hit the floor, you're just playing at life, and on some level you're scared because you know you're just playing. The moment of surrender is not when life is over. It's when it begins.

Instead of, "Dear God, please let us fall in love, or please give me this job," we say, "Dear God, my desire, my priority is inner peace. I want the experience of love. I don't know what would bring that to me. I leave the results of this situation in your hands. I trust your will. May your will be done. Amen.

Tenemos este absurdo hábito autoderrotista de recurrir a Dios como último recurso en vez de invocarlo en primer lugar.

Naming it, surrendering it to God, and asking Him to remove it—that's the miracle of personal transformation

It isn't easy, giving birth to our spiritual potential. Spiritual labor can be very arduous—one holy instant at a time, when we give up, surrender, soften, don't care if we're right, forgo our impatience, detach from the opinions and prizes of the world, and rest in the arms of God. But the end result is the love of our lives. We begin

Pedir perdón y perdonar. Poner esa situación en las manos de Dios y saber que Él está ahí.

Todas las mañanas, al despertar, podemos bendecir el mundo. Podemos orar para lograr ser hoy los seguidores de algo realmente sagrado y verdadero. Podemos respirar profundo y entregarnos al Plan de Dios por toda nuestra vida. Y, cuando lo hagamos, experimentaremos los milagros. Lo más importante es esto: si no lo hacemos, nos sentiremos deprimidos.

Dios amado, te entrego esta situación. Que sea usada para tus propósitos. Sólo te pido que mi corazón esté abierto para dar y recibir amor. Que todos los resultados se produzcan de acuerdo con tu voluntad. Amén».

Dear God, my desire, my priority is inner peace. I want the experience of love. I don't know what would bring that to me. I leave the results of this situation in your hands. I trust your will. May your will be done. Amen.

Sometimes I prayed so hard for God to materialize at the foot of my bed it would start to happen; then I'd beg it to stop, and it would.