Quotes About Surrender

Somehow, when we no longer feel in control, we become available to deeper aliveness.

Willfulness must give way to willingness and surrender. Mastery must yield to mystery.

I am like a little pencil in God's hand. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it.

Whate'er we leave to God, God does and blesses us.

Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.

Be God or let God.

But I trusted in thee, O Lord; I said, Thou art my God. My times are in thy hand.

People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.

Our being is continually undergoing and entering upon changes. ... We must, strictly speaking, at every moment give each other up and let each other go and not hold each other back.

We're swallowed up only when we are willing for it to happen.

We have fought this fight as long, and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us, as a Christian people, there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

All that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.

All I can do is play the game the way the cards fall.

Nearer, my God, to Thee - Nearer to Thee - E'en though it be a cross That raiseth me; Still all my song shall be Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee!

Life has ... taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.

God will provide - if only God would provide until he provides.

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Eventually I lost interest in trying to control my life, to make things happen in a way that I thought I wanted them to be. I began to practice surrendering to the universe and finding out what "it" wanted me to do.

Whoever falls from God's right hand is caught into His left.

"You are accepted!" ... accepted by that which is greater than you and the name of which you do not know. Do not ask the name now, perhaps you will know it later. Do not try to do anything, perhaps later you will do much. Do not seek for anything, do not perform anything, do not intend anything. Simply accept the fact that you are accepted.

The bird of paradise alights only on the hand that does not grasp.

No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit.

If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive.