Quotes About Surrender

Jackie's dream was France, but mine was really art and Italy, as that was all I cared about through school. My history of art teacher, who saved my life at Farmington, was obsessed with Bernard Berenson, and I succumbed as well.

When you try to battle with John Ford, you have to give in.

Oh, save me God, but not quite yet.

Beloved, surrender wholeheartedly to Jesus Christ, who loves you. As you drink from the deep well of Scripture, the Lord will refresh you and cleanse you, mold you and re-create you through His Living Word. For the Bible is the very breath of God, giving life eternal to those who seek Him.

I gave up what I can't keep for something I can never lose.

We gave ourselves for lost men, and prepared for death. Yet we did lift up our hearts and voices to God above, who "showeth His wonders in the deep".

Remember, Satan fears virtue. He is terrified of humility; he hates it because humility is the surrender of the soul to the Lord, and the devil is terrified of Jesus Christ.

The only One who has a right to shape our lives is Jesus Christ. We must determine to allow nothing and no one to shape us, not even our personal experiences, unless they are consistent with the promises of God.

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.

He kept wanting to make things happen, when he should have found something that was happening anyway, and just gone along with it.

All which I took from thee I did but take,Not for thy harms,But just that thou might'st seek it in My arms.

I fled Him, down the nights and down the days;I fled Him, down the arches of the years;I fled Him, down the labyrinthine waysOf my own mind; and in the mist of tearsI hid from Him, and under running laughter.

Si existe Dios asumirá el fracaso.

To serve the Lord requires personal sacrifices. If one is not willing to pay the price he should never commit himself.

You say yes to the mess by surrendering control-by opening yourself up to the capriciousness of the crowd, with no guarantee of success for your efforts. Ultimately, that takes one quality above all others: courage.

Most paths of self-correction purposely increase the effort and struggle to achieve these states or vibrations. They insist that you must 'earn it' or 'handle it' or 'surrender to it' or 'get it' when the truth is you already have immediate access to all of it.

Take my big clear eyes into your heart, and then pump my big clear eyes through your bloodstream, and! stick my big clear eyes on your feet

If you possess something but you can't give it away, then you don't possess it ... it possesses you.

I've confessed to everything and I'd liked to be hanged. Now, if you please.

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.

Art is nothing but the expression of our dream the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.

That insane asshole is dead I drowned him and he's not coming back. Look he has a new life a new name now which no one knows except the one who gave it.

I will place my hand in that flame and feel nothing.