Quotes About Surrender

We cannot know love if we remain unable to surrender our attachment to power, if any feeling of vulnerability strikes terror in our hearts

Nowadays we go to a movie and must watch commercials first. The relaxed, receptive state of surrender we like to reserve for the [...] film [...] is now given over to advertising where our senses and our sensibilities are assaulted against our will

Ultimately, they choose power over love. To know and keep true love we have to be willing to surrender the will to power.

It's all in God's hands. That's where it's always been.

Ben Carson: It's all in God's hands. Craig: But we believe you let God use your hands.

Eventually you stop paying attention to your own feelings when there's nothing to be done about them.

It was so easy to agree to what did not test us.

Together we were something less, which felt like such a relief, to not be ourselves for a while.

The wisdom god, Woden, went out to the king of the trolls, got him in an armlock, and demanded to know of him how order might triumph over chaos. "Give me your left eye," said the troll, "and I'll tell you." Without hesitation, Woden gave up his left eye. "Now tell me." The troll said, "The secret is, 'Watch with both eyes!'" —John Gardner

Fiat voluntas tua

The Gods play games with us, but if we open ourselves then we can become a part of the game instead of its victims.

The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away," Baird said, "and you don't piddle away your damned life because you don't like His dispositions.

My father still has two eyes," Stiorra said. "But not as beautiful as yours, my lady." "Did you come to waste our time?" Stiorra asked. "Or did you wish to surrender?" "To you, my lady, I would surrender all I have, but my men? You can count?" "I can count." "We outnumber you.

It was fate, I thought. Just fate. We think we control our own lives, but the gods play with us like children playing with straw dolls.

Unless we can so enlarge our interests as to include the whole outer world, we remain like a garrison in the beleaguered fortress, knowing that the enemy prevents escape and that ultimate surrender is inevitable.

the man who seeks intoxication, in whatever form, has given up hope except in oblivion.

Sometimes it's not what we hold on to that shapes our lives--it's what we're willing to let go of.

Even if the steering wheel fits, you don't have to keep gripping it.

Often when God does not readily give us what we want, it is because He knows what our desire would cost us. Faith sometimes means forgoing our desires because we trust Christ to have a better plan for our lives.

You and I need to obey God. When we do, the consequences of our obedience become God's problem and not ours.

God will sometimes allow things to get bad enough that we will be forced to look up. Victory always begins with a cry for help. When we come to the end of ourselves and cry out for help, amazing things happen.

Remember, any day not surrendered to the Spirit of God will likely be lived in the flesh (Gal. 5:16–17).

A big difference exists between trying to manipulate God to give us what we want and cooperating with God so He can give us what He wants.

Trying to know God and serve Him before we come to love Him is exhausting.