Quotes About Surrender

I'm not a trained actor. I surrender to my directors, and they make me act.

All my films I have shot in chronological order - always. And the reason is that there's a moment that the screenplay is the notion of the film. But when you start doing a film... the work itself starts being transformed, and you have to surrender.

Lord Jesus, we come just as we are; this is how we came at first, and this is how we come still, with all our failures, with all our transgressions, with all and everything that is what it ought not to be, we come to Thee.

God doesn't come with handles, little one. He doesn't want to be controlled and thrown down the alley every time for a perfect strike. Life's not like that and neither is God. You will never totally understand God, and He will never spoon feed you with all the answers about life. Some things you just have to figure out for yourself, others, He will show you in due time. In His way and in His time.

The liabilities were easy: He was locked in a trunk, bound and gagged; he had a nuclear bomb for a head rest, and there was a dead body lying beside him. The assets were a little more difficult. And then it hit him. If nothing occurred without God's approval, and he left nothing to chance, then everything that happened to him was part of God's larger plan. He thought about it. If all that were true, and God loved His creation, then . . . his liabilities were also his assets.

that they had been ready for death, in fact, always had been. His father had lived life close to his God, in full submission and obedience to all of God's laws and ways. His father was, or had been, a good Jew. Richard didn't know where he was now. He didn't even want to think about it anymore. If he didn't free himself, then he would soon freeze to death, or worse yet, Momin would return to finish the job personally.

Jesus is far more interested in what you do with Him than what you do for Him.

It pays to trust God with all and to make no reservation.

Will you let Him have your will; will you let Him have you? If you will, all His power is at your disposal.

today: It is when you get out of the will of God that you have a hard time.

But look at Mary. When the angel came to her, Mary said, "Be it unto me according to thy word." It was her Amen to the will of God. And God wants us with an Amen in our lives, an inward Amen, a mighty moving Amen, a God-inspired Amen, which says, "It is, because God has spoken. It cannot be otherwise. It is impossible to be otherwise.

Alive or dead, let Hel hold what she has.

I will abandon all grasping, yearning, and attachment, Enter undistracted into clear awareness of the teaching

to die "like a new-born child," free of all care and concern about death.

Aunque fuéramos capaces de advertir las mentiras del ego, nos asusta demasiado abandonarlo. Sin un verdadero conocimiento de la naturaleza de nuestra mente, de nuestra verdadera identidad, no tenemos otra alternativa. Una y otra vez nos rendimos a sus exigencias con la misma tristeza y autodesprecio con que el alcohólico acude a la bebida que sabe que lo está destruyendo, o el drogadicto a la droga que, tras un breve rato de euforia, lo dejará rendido y desesperado.

since learning to live is learning to let go.

Although we have been made to believe that if we let go we will end up with nothing, life itself reveals again and again the opposite: that letting go is the path to real freedom.

Learning to live is learning to let go.

If there were any way of sheltering from death's blows—I am not the man to recoil from it . . . But it is madness to think that you can succeed . .

To release means to release mind from its prison of grasping

He thought that all men, great and small, bond and free, were sinners in the sight of God; that they were, by nature, rebels against His government; and that they must repent of their sins, and be reconciled to God, through Christ. I cannot say that I had a very distinct notion of what was required of me; but one thing I knew very well—I was wretched, and had no means of making myself otherwise. Moreover, I knew that I could pray for light.

surrender is giving up control bt nt lossing power

go to bed early, secure in the knowledge that God is in control, not you.

My life was pouring out my feet and seeping through cracks in the floor; yet still I knelt and did not move, for fear she'd let go my hands. Let me stay, I wanted to beg: Please don't make me go.