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Quotes About Surrender

Goodbye, fin,' I say. And I wish I was going with him, to some warm sheltered hideaway in the hills, wish that I, too, could lie down beside the dog, feel his unbroken heartbeat, smell the dust in his fur. There's only hours. I steel my courage. Surrender.
~ Sonya Hartnett
To dismantle is not about surrender; the way In is the way out. As long as We are here, to do something. Everything.
~ Sophie Cabot Black
His hands lifted and slid over my tear-soaked cheeks, holding me almost tenderly. He looked troubled. There was no other word for it. "I don't know what it is you do to me." I do something to him? His voice continued, a dark little whisper rushing over my lips. "But I'm not going to fight it anymore.
~ Sophie Jordan
She'd succumbed to him, crumbled like bits of rocky shoreline against the waves.
~ Sophie Jordan
They are not wise, then, who stand forth to buffet against Love; for Love rules the gods as he will, and me.
~ Sophocles
Do not be to yourself more that God may be to you.
~ Sorin Cerin
The day obedience becomes a quest and not an irritation is the day you gain power.
~ Spencer W. Kimball
Whatever pleases You is a pure action of karma.
~ Sri Guru Granth Sahib
Serving the Guru, I have found eternal peace; my ego has been silenced and subdued.
~ Sri Guru Granth Sahib
It has nothing to do with effort. Just turn away, look between the thoughts, rather than at the thoughts. When you happen to walk in a crowd, you do not fight every man you meet, you just find your way between. When you fight, you invite a fight. But when you do not resist, you meet no resistance. When you refuse to play the game, you are out of it.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Happiness is never your own; it is where the 'I' is not. It is beyond your reach; you have only to reach out beyond yourself and you will find it.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Be in the world like a maid servant in a rich man's house. The maid servant deals with all the objects and things always knowing that nothing belongs to her and that this is not her true home.
~ Sri Sathya Sai Baba
I cannot do anything without Godís permission.
~ Sri Sathya Sai Baba
Have this faith that someone is there to take away your weaknesses. Ok, you slipped once, twice, thrice. It does not matter. Keep moving ahead. People take vows never to commit mistakes again. Breaking the vows makes it worse. Surrendering is better
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Don't Fall in love, Rise in Love!
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Surrender is the venture of the bold man. A fearful person cannot surrender.
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
That name--my conception of Him--extended to me a hand that led to a place where even His divine name could not exist. Why?
~ St Teresa of Avila
Trust and trust alone should lead us to love
~ St Therese of Lisieux
Give, O Lord, what Thou commandest, and then command what Thou wilt.
~ St. Augustine of Hippo
Take, Lord, and receive all my liberty, my memory, my understanding, and my entire will, all I have and call my own. You have given all to me. To you, Lord, I return it. Everything is yours; do with it what you will. Give me only your love and your grace, that is enough for me.
~ St. Ignatius of Loyola
What seems to me white, I will believe black if the hierarchical Church so defines.
~ St. Ignatius of Loyola
My past, O Lord, to Your mercy; my present, to Your love; my future to Your providence.
~ St. Padre Pio
Trust God that you are where you are meant to be.
~ St. Teresa of Avila
Holiness consists simply in doing God's will, and being just what God wants us to be.
~ St. Thérèse de Lisieux