Quotes About Surrender

Prayer is not a matter of getting what we want the most. Prayer is a matter of giving ourselves to God and learning His laws, so that He can do through us what He wants the most.

I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.

Whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want

And admitting that you can't fix yourself—that only God can—is the first step to staying fixed.

Before you can stand up straight before another person, you have to fall on your knees before God.

Letting go is recognizing when your need to control is controlling you and choosing to release control.

God's plan is defined by him alone. He sets up the terms; we don't. God is not a power we can just use for our benefit. If we want to come to God, we must come on his terms and enter his Kingdom his way. As the one who created us and loves us, God knows how we ought to live. If we try to do things our own way, we are only asking for trouble.

For the sake of God, boy, let go of all this obsessive worry and fretting. You are powerless over such a mess." (Quote from Father Bede)

De Caussade nails this point: "This work in our souls cannot be accomplished by cleverness, intelligence, or any subtlety of mind, but only by completely abandoning ourselves to the divine action, becoming like metal poured into a mold

These are strange days, knowing that I have moved into Destiny, knowing I am in exactly the right place, agonizing as it is." No war here whatsoever.

de Caussade, Abandonment

Abandonment to Divine Providence. Translated and Introduced by John Beevers. Image Books: New York, 1975

All of the Eastern contemplative traditions stumbled onto this brilliant principle: When difficulties arise, give yourself to them.

My life does not belong to me." Chardin would have said, "My life belongs to God." Katherine found it closer to the truth to say, "My life belongs to the world.

Initiations are opportunities for us to grow larger. They are death channels. And they are birth channels. They allow us the opportunity to integrate more of our self—more possibility, more reality, more sensation, more feeling. They require everything we've got. They destroy us to re-create us.

If I am going to be drowned—if I am going to be drowned—if I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and trees?

Are you following Christ's ambitions for your life or expecting Him to help you reach yours?

There are many reasons for violence. This is just something that sometimes happens. We'd see it in treatment centers - the child who'd suffered something awful. Even in the best recovery there'd be a fear that everything would fall apart and they'd become victims again. And their final loyalty was to themselves. They couldn't be forced. They preferred to wreck everything, preferred self-destruction to surrender. (175)

It was a good day to die, but nobody did.

You can have anything you want if you can give up the belief that you cannot have it

Costly discipleship is held captive to Christ; it is Christ-centered.

Howard Taylor wrote of his father, "For forty years the sun never rose on China a single day that God didn't find him on his knees.

When you begin to surrender control and let God fill you with His love, with renewed purpose, and with a conscience at peace, then the joy welling up inside you will begin pouring out onto the people in your family aswell.

Your ways are higher than my ways. What I really want, Lord, is that You receive glory from my life. Maximum glory. The full weight of Your glory. Work in my heart and in each of my situations, Lord, so that You are most glorified. In Jesus' name, amen.