Quotes About Surrender

It took me a while to learn the true meaning of patience and surrender, but I have finally accepted that healing doesn't happen on our schedule. It doesn't have a clock or a calendar.

I told the people before they tortured me, please, don't torture me. I didn't do anything. They say, we have to torture you very much. Then when they tortured me, I told them everything they want to hear. I signed confession. That said, the ball was in their court. You know, I very much surrender to my lot.

I debuted in Bollywood without inhibitions, and I don't want to develop any fears now. Nothing is more detrimental to an actor than the lack of total surrender.

Jesus is a personal symbol of the Holy Spirit. Having been totally healed by the Holy Spirit, Jesus became one with him. Every thought, action, and deed of Jesus was guided by the Holy Spirit instead of ego.

You know what the Jews say: Man plans and God laughs.

They just had to eat it,

No one minds life as long as they are not trying to leave it. Nor death, as long as they are not dying.

a person I have come to accept in the way of things here, which, if they can't be changed, they must be endured.

tentación: la de rendirse de una vez por todas y entregarse a sí mismo y al resto del mundo a los designios del demonio con una actitud de indiferencia inerte, rayana en la predisposición; la de cometer un suicidio moral con obstinación y maldad.

If the past can't be changed, and the future's already written; what's the point in living?

Ephesians 2:10, Paul says that God has stored up good works for us to do. If we are to do those good works, we must learn to pay attention to what we see and hear the Father doing; we must learn how to depend on him. We need to plug into another power source if we are to come close to doing what Jesus did.

Our lives are lived with the illusion of control and then there are moments rare as wisdom when we abandon the pretense that we are masters of our fate.

The gnostic is Muslim in that his whole being is surrendered to God; he has no separate individual existence of his own. He is like the birds and the flowers in his yielding to the Creator; like them, like all the elements of the cosmos, he reflects the Divine to his own degree. He reflects it actively, however, they passively; his participation is a conscious one.

Now this process, which requires death to our "selves" and the piercing of the walls of our ego to penetrate into our heart, is not possible without the spiritual master, who already knows what it means to be fully human and who has realized this knowledge himself or herself through journeying across the mountains and valleys of microcosmic existence to reach the One.

Dance to the tune of hope as worries of the past slip away to the surrender of smiles

Movements without unconditionality of love cannot reach the path of dance

Only when there is absolute submission can the soul ascend through dance

My Beloved, don't be heartless with me. Your Presence is my only cure. How can I be left with neither a heart, nor my Beloved? Either return my heart, or do not deny me Your Presence.

Love came and emptied me of self, every vein and every pore, made into a container to be filled by the Beloved. Of me, only a name is left, the rest is You my Friend, my Beloved.

the Buddhist philosophy means by "letting go of attachment." It's similar to the Christian concept, "God's will be done.

The more willing you are to surrender to the energy within you, the more power can flow through you.

Instead of figuring out what I wanted, setting goals, and trying to control what happened to me, I began to practice tuning in receptively to my intuition and acting on what it told me without always understanding why I was doing what I was doing. It was a feeling of letting go of control, surrendering, and allowing the higher power to be in charge.

Maybe when I'd dead, he thought. Maybe when I'm dead I'll get some goddamned sleep.

thank you that we are unable to save ourselves and that each time we try, we fail. Have mercy on us. Be the strength in our weakness. Clear our heads of the foolishness of believing we can be our own gods. Steer our hearts to utter dependence on you. Amen.