Quotes About Surrender

I'm here to say that you can't make the troubled waters of life go away by defending yourself against them. You can only walk over those troubled waters if you offer peace to them and leave the safety of your boat. Or so it was once written, and I have found Jesus' teaching to be true.

Most people die twice: first when they give up on life, and finally when Death comes to take what's his.

It was her false self that was confused, thinking that it knew what ugly was and stewing in it, trying to be good enough when there was no such thing. The ugliness had been corrected a long time ago through forgiveness. It was time to forgive herself and surrender to the truth. She

He who holds his life dear is destroying it; And he who makes his life of no account in this world Will keep it to the life of the ages." Yeshua

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

If my path is with learning and tears and submission, can you not follow that same path?

Our bodies, our relationships, our lives. We're terrified of losing those things because we think they make us who we are. Fear of loss keeps it all in place. Dying means letting go of all of it, our entire life in the world, to know ourselves beyond the images and relationships apparent in this world.

In the first garden, the first Adam, me, had said, Not your will, but mine, and eaten of the knowledge of good and evil, which was judgment and grievance. In the second garden, the second Adam, Yeshua, had said, Not my will, but yours, and surrendered his life.

Let go of all that you think you know about Me, so that you can KNOW Me.

The only way to know yourself in and as the light is to let go of all your attachments to who you think you are in this world. You know the sayings: hate your entire life, deny yourself, take up the cross. All these mean the same thing. Let go of the meaning you give life in all your judgments of value based on the knowledge of good and evil. You've heard this?" "Jesus said those things," I said, knowing the verses well.

Most people die twice: first when they give up on life, and finally when Death comes to take what's his.

Do not allow fear to bind you up, dear one. You will only lose what you already have. Accept what is given now. ~Yeshua

In the same way, we who are clothed in Christ have great power and none greater than to love—without which, to quote Paul, the rest is nothing. But only in surrendering the old business suit do we see who we really are.

Terrifying creatures without heads or feet. Death hiding in black shrouds. But the death called Fury had teeth and claws, and they'd tortured and toyed with his mind and body for hours. Manipulated and exposed his deepest fears and doubts, broken his mind and his body. Trust us and we will leave you alone. Surrender to us and we'll keep you safe from harm. We are friends. We are you.

Yeshua's way was to protect nothing and let go of all grievance, as

Paris Ã¢â'¬Â¦ is loath to surrender itself to people who are in a hurry; it belongs to the dreamers.…

We are made exactly as God wants us to be. We only need to lift our minds above Earth's empty sorrows so that we can rejoice in the Divine joy.

We will not take possession of our birthright of never-ending joy until we find ourselves fully gratified with God and all his actions and judgments, loving and nonviolent toward ourselves and toward all our fellow seekers, and able to love everything God loves. And when we do achieve this state of surrender and love, it is the goodness of God that awakens it in us.

Whether the soul is in a state of seeking or finding, the way we honor God most is through unconditional surrender

Of all the men I have ever known, Eric Liddell was the one in whose character and life the Spirit of Jesus Christ was pre-eminently manifested." And all of us who were privileged to know him with any intimacy echo this judgement. 'What was the secret of his consecrated life and far-reaching influence? Absolute surrender to God's will as revealed in Jesus Christ.

I've come to learn that certain things in life are beyond our control. Others are beyond comprehension.

I knew if I gave into it, I'd have to surrender myself completely. I'd lose all control. Everything I knew, everything I was, the walls I'd built up to protect myself all these years would come crashing down. I might get lost in the rubble. Yet, she made me feel alive in a way I'd only ever imagined I could feel. Bells, whistles, music.

There is nothing wrong with you. God asks the most of those he loves best.

Babies demand your entire self, but it is a funny kind of self. It is a mixture of the "all" a factory worker gives to the conveyor belt and the "all" a lover offers to the one he adores. It involves, on both counts, a fair degree of self-abnegation. This is why people who mind children suffer from despair; it happens all of a sudden—they realise, all of a sudden, that they still exist.