Quotes About Surrender

What happens when we acknowledge the sovereignty and power of God without trusting in His goodness and faithfulness? A pitcher who saw God's power behind his extremely unlikely rise to the big leagues wondered if, at any difficulty he encountered there, God might be taking his ability away.

There is a magic moment, during which a man has surrendered a treasure, and during which the man who is about to receive it has not yet done so. An alert lawyer [read bond trader] will make that moment his own, possessing the treasure for a magic microsecond, taking a little of it, passing it on.

For people to accept the yoke, they must believe they have no choice.

I have a way of dealing with temptation. I just succumb and get it over with.

All meaningful change requires a genuine surrender. Yet, to surrender does not simply mean to give up; more to give up one's usual self and allow something other to enter and redeem the lesser sense of self. In surrendering, we fall to the bottom of our arguments and seek to touch the origin of our lives again. Only then can we see as we were meant to see, from the depth of the psyche where the genius resides, where the seeds of wisdom and purpose were planted before we were born.

The man of conservative temperament believes that a known good is not lightly to be surrendered for an unknown better.

How does this happen? To fall in love and be disassembled.

Swoon, I'll catch you. - Almásy

Daca ti-as incredinta viata mea, ai scapa-o pe jos. Nu-i asa?

The mystic feels as if his own will were in abeyance, and indeed sometimes as if he were grasped and held by a superior power." This sense of having temporarily surrendered to a superior force often leaves the person feeling as if he or she has been permanently transformed.

There's no control in life, is there? There's only one who's in control, and He'll take me when He wants me. I don't want to know about it. It's none of my business. But when it happens, I just ask that it won't be painful and that He forgives me my sins.

Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.

No matter how difficult your situation may be you have to follow the Lord of the Second Advent completely.

So, then you find yourself in a situation where you have to do things because they're on offer to you, because you don't have much self-respect left. You just can't say no, even to something that you've never done before. You just can't help yourself.

I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.

Don't try to hold people to you, don't try to push them away. Let life do everything for you. This is the proper attitude on the path of love.

Everything is the will of God - we are only instruments of her will and we learn to just love and accept.

It's hard to let go anything we love. We live in a world which teaches us to clutch. But when we clutch we're left with a fistful of ashes.

Become more accepting. With every interaction, surrender any tendency to judge another person. Pray for a more accepting heart.

when love looks straight into your eyes return those looks and your heart will surrender to feelings never felt before

One should be prepared to surrender completely, absolutely to the will of God. Whatever He does is for our good.

I have tried to fight the love thing. It's a losing battle.

the battle's in your hands now, but I would lay my armor down, if you said you'd rather love than fight.

Love is illogical. You fall into it like a manhole. Then you're just stuck. You die in love more than you live in love.