Quotes About Surrender

God is the nail that splits our palm to break our grip on the world.

Inside this new love, die. Your way begins on the other side…. Die, and be quiet. Quietness is the surest sign that you've died. Your old life was a frantic running from silence. The speechless full moon comes out now. —RUMI

Real prayer is a disappearance, a surrender to the embrace of deepening mystery, in darkness. In that darkness, finally, God alone is. And God is infinite surprise.

Do we choose sleep? Hell no and bullshit - we fall. We give ourselves over to possibility, to whim and fancy, to the bed, to the pillow, the tiny white tablet. And these choose for us.

You're a shadow. You slip out of your own skin, like molting, shedding your own history and your own future, leaving behind everything you ever were or wanted or believed in.

Me? I belong to Jesus Christ. Like it or not. They wet you and get you. Anyway. No other bastard will have me.

jedoch spürt man auf ziemlich perverse Art, dass man dem Leben an sich ausgeliefert ist, weil es einen zwingt, zu atmen und zu atmen und zu atmen in einer endlosen Kapitulation vor der biologischen Routine, und dass das menschliche Streben nach Kontrolle ebenso viel mit der Machtergreifung über den eigenen Körper zu tun hat wie mit der Ausübung von Macht über andere.

God will take us where we have not planned to go in order to produce in us what we could not achieve on our own.

And then I realized it was what the Arabs call inshallah: "It is not mine to do; it's mine to do the best I can; it's going to happen according to God's

As for me, I expect to die for Jesus. In the West, you probably won't have to die for Jesus. But . . . will you live for Him?

Another hour has passed for which I must give an account to Christ." Is your life about Jesus and nothing else? When you may die at any moment, it has to be that way, but we're all called to live only for Him, no matter what.

No! Be weak! Give up! You can't do everything. Lower your standards. Get friends to come and help you.

Criminals, because they're plagued with guilt, often will surrender and go quietly. Outlaws, because they're pure, never will.

In order to tame death, they refuse to completely enjoy life. In rejecting complete enjoyment, they are half-dead in advance - and that with no guarantee that their sacrifice will actually benefit them when all is done.

The mystics say that as soon as you give it up, you can have it. That may be true, but who wants it when you don't want it.

The mystics say that as soon as you give it up, you can have it. That may be true, but who wants it when you don't want it.

can't build the church with any great idea, plan or management. The church is built by Someone else.

We ransomed our dignity to the clouds.

I'm leaving everything here. Your records? No. Everything else.

En el cielo de las armonías todas las fijezas eran movimientos y todas las felicidades nacían de la perdición. Sólo el que se perdía se encontraba.

Não importa o que façamos: somente o arrependimento vai nos levar a algum lugar com Deus.

Eu não quero mais bênçãos, quero Aquele que abençoa. Não quero mais dons, quero Aquele que os concede.

If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.

If you surrender to the wind you can ride it.