Quotes About Surrender

O god— all come true, all burst to light! O light—now let me look my last on you!

What is the New Testament? A handbook for those who are to be sacrificed.

Now we will let the knight of faith appear in the rôle just described. He makes exactly the same movements as the other knight, infinitely renounces claim to the love which is the content of his life, he is reconciled in pain; but then occurs the prodigy, he makes still another movement more wonderful than all, for he says, "I believe nevertheless that I shall get her, in virtue, that is, of the absurd, in virtue of the fact that with God all things are possible.

Give up your good 'Christian' life and follow Jesus

The higher life begins for us ... when we renounce our own will to bow before a Divine law.

In my life, things have happened to me. I've never felt I was controlling anything.

And then he greeted Death as an old friend, and went with him gladly, and, equals, they departed this life.

Devotion means a profusion of life.

There are times in life when the most comfortable thing is to do nothing at all. Things happen to you and you just let them happen.

I'm not in charge of my life.

I couldn't imagine, you know, God having a plan for my life. I thought I planned my life out.

The whole art of living consists in giving up existence in order to exist.

… "That at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what´s happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That´s the world´s greatest lie." - The Alchemist, Paulo Cohelo -

In the end, The treasure of life is missed by those who hold on and gained by those who let go.

I'm very type-A, and many things in my life are about control and domination, but eating should be a submissive experience, where you let down your guard and enjoy the ride.

I am a control freak, but not when I travel. For some reason when I travel, I am able to surrender more than in my real life. I am able to let go. I think it's why I like it so much.

We need to accept that the commandments of God aren't just a long list of good ideas. They aren't 'life hacks' from an Internet blog or motivational quotes from a Pinterest board.

Every life will be better if God is at the center of it

A man is a slave of everything he does. Some things get rid off easily, some things doesn't.

Life is never just in your own hands ...

In the bigger scheme of things, we are two pawns... waiting for life to make its move.#Fatalist

Change is not something you do. Change is something you allow.

Our prayers are something akin to delivering a list, verses surrendering a life. The former will always leave me creating the next list, while the latter will leave me creating a new life.

God invites. We decline. And because of that single foolhardy decision we spend the rest of our lives 'declining'.