Quotes About Surrender

As hard as it was to hold on to things, it was even harder to let them go.

She's just come undone, her mother had whispered on the phone to her aunt Bella. It was an old colloquialism, the sort of thing you didn't think people still said. The phrase fit Sara so completely that she had found herself surrendering to it, imagining her arms and her legs detaching from her body. What did it matter? What did she need arms or legs or hands or feet for if she couldn't run to him, hold him, touch him?

Trust in the Lord to look over her. 'Lean not into thine own understanding.' 

In the Credo the Church bows before that God Whom we did not seek and find—Who rather has sought and found us. Now

In the Credo the Church bows before that God Whom we did not seek and find—Who rather has sought and found us.

So, what do they pay you for...exactly? Slapped around. Tied up. Beaten. Given orders, made to do things. What kind of things? You know. No, I can't even begin to imagine. Lick my boots, crawl on floor, eat like dog. Nothing useful, then, like hoovering?

The man who has lost his purse will go wherever you wish. [Lat., Ibit eo quo vis qui zonam perdidit.]

To be Christian it will cost a man his love of ease.

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

The greatest act of faith takes place when a man finally decides that he is not God.

Man doth not yield him to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.

I used to worry about every little thing, trying to figure out every problem. Well, I realize now how foolish that was. I was no more in control of my life than the man on the moon.

Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs.

We have to keep letting go, and slowly and surely the great full life of God will invade us in every part, and men will take knowledge of us that we have been with Jesus.

God never does anything wrong. He knows what is best for me. No man can understand God, or know why He deals with us as He does.

As soon as extreme attachment comes, a man loses himself, he is no more master of himself, he is a slave.

As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

A man may be in as just possession of the truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

No one has learned the meaning of living until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow man. Service to others is akin to duty, the fulfillment of which brings true joy.

It is altogether doubtful whether any man can be saved who comes to Christ for His help with no intention to obey Him.

Men and women fall in love abandoning reality in favour of the dream

That man does not possess his estate, but his estate possesses him.

The man who has submitted his will and purposes entirely to God, carries God with him in all his works and in all circumstances.

No man has ever gone through the crisis of deliberately making Jesus Lord and found Him to be a failure.