Quotes About Surrender

Forget the self and you will fear nothing, in whatever level or awareness you find yourself to be.

Eis que assisto a meu desmonte palmo a palmo e não me aflijo de me tornar planície

But in good time you'll see that sometimes what matters isn't what one gives but what one gives up.

a surrendered life is the key to experiencing God and being used by him to accomplish his purposes. When our lives match the lyrics, then we are truly singing.

stifle forever; lower your weapon and look into the clear bright

Jack Coffey shrugged, and this was akin to waving a white flag of surrender. Sometimes losing was a good idea. Failure could be so restful. His tension headache was gone even before his two detectives had been dispatched uptown to Central Park.

Until we are willing to give ourselves over to life, we always will be possessed by death.

Our lives are in God's hands, and that's the best possible place they could be.

PRAYER Dear Lord, I want to be willing to be willing for You to take charge of my life. Help me to know that Your desire is not to harm me but to prosper me and give me hope and a future [see Jer. 29:11].

a true alcoholic is someone who's turned from a cucumber into a pickle; you can try to stop a cucumber from turning into a pickle, but there's no way you can turn a pickle back into a cucumber.

Death either destroys us or frees us.

Live one day at a time. Keep your attention in present time. Have no expectations. Make no judgements. And give up the need to know why things happen as they do. Give it up!

The load was too heavy for her, but giving it to God and allowing Him to carry it for her seemed impossible. That would mean yielding her heart and accepting God's will. And she didn't know if she had the courage to do that.

God put us here, on this carnival ride. We close our eyes never knowing where it'll take us next.

Jesus, take the wheel Take it from my hands 'Cause I can't do this on my own I'm letting go So give me one more chance To save me from this road I'm on Jesus, take the wheel

Jesus take the wheel

Jesus take the wheel Take it from my hands Cause I can't do this on my own I'm letting go So give me one more chance Save me from this road I'm on Jesus take the wheel

There comes a time in the life of a sailor when he no longer belongs ashore. It's then that he surrenders to the Pacific, where no land blocks the eye, where sky and ocean mirror each other until above and below have lost their meaning, and the Milky Way looks like the spume of a breaking wave and the globe itself rolls like a boat in the midst of the sinking and heaving surf of that starry sky, and even the sun is nothing but a tiny glowing dot of phosphorescence on the sea of the night.

Oh, Lord, give me the desires of my heart. Or either change them according to Your will. Show me the error of my ways.

In our seeking for the lost Child, our contemplation of Our Lady becomes active. The fiat was complete surrender. Advent was a folding upon the life growing in our darkness. Now the seeking is a going out from ourselves. It is a going out from our illusions, our limitations, our wishful thinking, our self-loving, and the self in our love.

We are all asked if we will surrender what we are, our humanity, our flesh and blood, to the Holy Spirit and allow Christ to fill the emptiness formed by the particular shape of our life.

Christ's "Not my will but thine be done" brings Our Lady's "Be it done unto me according to thy word" to a culminating surrender.

Christ surrendered the secret of Himself to each one of us when He gave us His Body. In Holy Communion this surrender of the secret of Himself goes on. "With desire," He said, "have I desired this hour." The hour when He was to consecrate bread, in order that not only to the whole race would He give His Spirit, but to each individual, the gift of Himself.

Do reasons matter when there's nothing that can be done to change things.