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Quotes About Surrender

Writing, playing, composing, painting, reading, listening, looking-all require that we submit to being swept away by Eros, to a transformation of self of the kind that happens when we fall in love.
~ Stephen Nachmanovitch
Love includes vulnerability, surrender, self-valuing, steadiness, and a willingness to face - rather than run from - the worst of ourselves.
~ Geneen Roth
I love the one who punishes me well.
~ Anne Rice
The only love language is 'die to self.'
~ Christine Caine
You don't have to do anything. Why worry? It's all god's plan anyway. Just love everyone and believe.
~ Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr.
A person who is obsessed is characterized by committed, settled, passionate love for God, above and before every other thing and every other being.
~ Francis Chan
The real test on the path of love is are you willing to give up everything for your love?
~ Frederick Lenz
My heart… It feels like my chest can barely contain it. Like it's trying to escape because it doesn't belong to me any more. It belongs to you.
~ Neil Gaiman
Submit to love without thinking
~ Rumi
God has made me desire always what he most wants to give me.
~ Therese of Lisieux
Only if you sacrifice for a cause will you love it.
~ Victor L. Brown
He is fairer than the morning star, and whiter than the moon. For his body I would give my soul, and for his love I would surrender heaven.
~ Oscar Wilde
Love comes softly, it cannot be forced...cannot bear the weight of our expectations. Love always comes in the surrender - in the falling.
~ Ann Voskamp
On the path of love we don't feel we necessarily have control. In the yoga of love we feel it's only God who does everything. We can't breathe one breath without God.
~ Frederick Lenz
Perfect love of God means the complete union of our will with God's.
~ Alphonsus Liguori
I would rather die and come to Jesus Christ than be king over the entire earth. Him I seek who died for us; Him I love who rose again because of us.
~ Ignatius of Antioch
You, ignorant of the way of Love, set Me free.
~ Rumi
This is how I would die into the love I have for you: As pieces of cloud dissolve in sunlight.
~ Rumi
Alas, O Lord, to what a state dost Thou bring those who love Thee!
~ Teresa of Avila
Because love is so enormous, the only thing you can think of doing is swallowing the person that you love entirely.
~ Maurice Sendak
If you truly love God and His will, then doing what you will, will, in fact, be doing what God wills.
~ Peter Kreeft
We've given up making a living, its all this crazy love poetry now!
~ Rumi
Jesus was lost in his love for God.
~ Rumi
For me to love you, Jesus, as you love me, I would have to borrow your own love and then only would I be at rest.
~ Therese of Lisieux