Quotes About Surrender

ABBA, I BELONG TO YOU.

The deadening spirit of hypocrisy lives on in prelates and politicians who want to look good but not be good; it lives on in people who prefer to surrender control of their souls to rules rather than run the risk of living in union with Jesus.

Let's drop the war.' 'It's very hard. There's no place to drop it.

Your life, my life, is given graciously by God. Our lives are not problems to be solved but journeys to be taken

I know that I have to move from speaking about Jesus to letting him speak within me, from thinking about Jesus to letting him think within me, from acting for and with Jesus to letting him act through me. I know the only way for me to see the world is to see it through his eyes.

The leaders of the future will be those who dare to claim their irrelevance in the contemporary world as a divine vocation...

Praying demands that you take to the road again and again, leaving your house and looking forward to a new land for yourself and your [fellow human]. This is why praying demands poverty, that is, the readiness to live a life in which you have nothing to lose so that you always begin afresh.

Jesus promises a life in which we increasingly have to stretch out our hands and be led into places where we would rather not go.

If I were to ask about my seven months at the Abbey, Did it work, did I solve my problems? the simple answer would be, It did not work, it did not solve my problems. And I know that a year, two years, or even a lifetime as a Trappist monk would not have worked either. Because a monastery is not built to solve problems but to praise the Lord in the midst of them.

The paradox of prayer is that it asks for a serious effort while it can only be received as a gift. We cannot plan, organize or manipulate God; but without a careful discipline, we cannot receive him either.

By inviting God into our difficulties we ground life—even its sad moments—in joy and hope. When we stop grasping our lives we can finally be given more than we could ever grab for ourselves. And we learn the way to a deeper love for others.

God should be sought, but we cannot find God. We can only be found by him.

It seems easier to be God than to love God, easier to control people than to love people, easier to own life than to love life.

To be converted fully is to let God lead us out of our compulsions. It means that we admit how we give up ceaselessly trying to "fix" things. Freedom is the opposite of compulsive obsessions. This is not easy, of course, mostly because intense needs motivate us.

When I demand from others what only God can give, I experience pain.

Receiving forgiveness requires a total willingness to let God be God and do all the healing, restoring, and renewing.

Gracias a Dios por Jesucristo Señor nuestro!» (Rom 7,15-25).

Drinking the cup is an act of selfless love, an act of immense trust, an act of surrender to a God who will give what we need when we need it.

In the end, a life of prayer is a life with open hands—a life where we need not be ashamed of our weaknesses but realize that it is more perfect for us to be led by the Other than to try to hold everything in our own hands.

Dare to lose your life and you will find it.

Following Jesus means to let go of the "I" and move toward the "other." Following Jesus means to dare to move out of ourselves and to slowly let go of building our "self" up.

As I reflect on this reality, it is clear that God is present in the events of my life, yet I act and speak as if I am in control. But

I need no longer always manage and muster support for my "cause.

Faith asks us to jump, to surrender and believe that somewhere, somehow, Someone will catch us and bring us home.