Quotes About Surrender

When we pray in adoration, we stop focusing on ourselves and our storms, and start fixing our eyes on the only One who is fully able to handle any situation or request (2 Cor. 3:18).

Lordship is when "What does the Lord want?" trumps, "What do I want?

Say yes to life, even though you know it may devour you.

I in obedience to Thy will Thou knowest did submit. It was my duty so to do; O Lord, accept of it.

Death is perfectly safe. (55)

Being a man is a privilege, not an entitlement. It is a surrender of our priority. It is a laying down of our lives, not physically but inwardly—our preferences, our pleasures, sometimes even our dreams. Our version of Witold Pilecki's medals comes in the lives we offer to God, lives we have bled and sweated and prayed and given ourselves for. This is what it means to be a man.

Knowledge is better than practice; meditation is better than knowledge; and best of all is surrender, which soon brings peace.

These interreflecting themes, the prerequisites of creation, are playfulness, love, concentration, practice, skill, using the power of limits, using the power of mistakes, risk, surrender, patience, courage, and trust. Creativity is a harmony of opposite tensions, as encapsulated in our opening idea of lila, or divine play.

For art to appear, we have to disappear

We didn't make the world. All we have to do is live in it.

In order to welcome redemption, one must first embrace the utter hopelessness of failure. For how can a man look for rescue unless he knows he is truly lost?

True poetry is born of scrutiny, Scrutiny, the son of meditation, Meditation, the son of lore, Lore, the son of inquiry, Inquiry, the son of investigation, Investigation, the son of knowledge, Knowledge, the son of understanding, Understanding, the son of wisdom, Wisdom, the son of Surrender to the Divine Will. The

Cling too tightly to your life and you will lose it, my reluctant warrior. You must become the master of your life, not its slave.

When we give up the chase, we give up our wishing.

To take control of your life ... just let go!

The ability to feel and express genuine gratitude for the help given when it is needed most, for the gift or boon that is given at just the right time and under the right circumstances, is a way of surrendering one's self to benevolent external forces.

Porkie and me came to some sort of agreement with the screw and the nurse, and after some haggling we gave ourselves up. After that, I never saw my friend Porkie again until we appeared at Edinburgh High Court, where we each got six years on top of our sentences for one night of madness. That just shows you how drugs can get a grip over your mind.

Sometimes we can miss God's work by our very desire to do God's will!

there is a profound difference between doing things for God and doing what God tells us to do.

Hand over the whole natural self, all the desires that you think innocent as well as the ones you think wicked-the whole outfit. I will give you a new self instead. In fact, I will give you Myself: my own will shall become yours.

I decided as long as I'm going to hell, I might as well do it thoroughly.

Než si totiž po?ídíte d?ti, život ob?as dokonce odpovídá vašim p?edstavám a zám?r?m. Po?ád m?žete mít iluzi, že ho máte pod kontrolou - a to je pocit, který skute?né rodi?e už dávno opustil.

Whatever the world dishes up, we take it on--not on our own terms, but on the world's.

I want to learn everything I can from Him, be under His lordship, submit to all His ways, abide with Him at all times and give Him glory from every part of my life.