Quotes About Surrender

Finally, don't try to "get out" of anything. What you resist, persists. I

The moment you surrender to love and allow it to lead you to exactly where your soul wants to go, you will have no difficulty.

Now for My Will to be yours, you would have to do the same. First, you would have to know it. Second, you would have to accept it. Third, you would have to praise it. Fourth, you would have to love it. Finally, you would have to call it your own.

I just want to not be me. Whether it's sleeping or playing video games or riding my bike or studying. Giving my brain up. That's what's important.

Giving my brain up. That's what's important.

The enemy is too strong. I can't fight them. They're too smart. You're smart too, soldier. Not smart enough. So you're just going to give up? That's the plan.

Life is cooking us, and we resist because we don't know our purpose in life, the "meal" that is being prepared. The cook says to the chickpeas, "You were once drinking fresh dew in the garden. That was so you could be a nice meal for the Guest. Don't dwell on the self you think you are. Let yourself be transformed into something even better—a meal for the

You can surrender without a prayer, but never really pray without surrender. You can fight without ever winning, but never ever win without a fight.

Rich Miller, Letting Go of Fear (Harvest House Publishers, 2018).

I am no longer a product of my past, I am a product of the work of Christ on the cross.

God, however, has not called us to produce fruit, only to bear it as we abide in Christ.

Survival is a strong instinct, surrender is not an option, and all combat is justifiable homicide. But you pay a price.

Neither a fortress nor a virgin will hold out long after they begin to negotiate.

Only as one is willing to give up his present limitations and identity can he become that which he desires to be.

Some [surrendering Germans] would crawl on their knees,' recalled one British soldier, 'holding a picture of a woman or a child in their hands above their heads but everyone was killed. The excitement was gone. We killed in cold blood because it was our duty to kill as much as we could.

You feel fine, and then, when your body can't keep fighting, you don't.

Maybe God has a better plan for me than I had for myself.

If God gives you chocolate, you open your mouth, no?

I fear God. If my time comes, my time comes.

Many yearn to be deceived and directed. It makes life easier to bear.

It is impossible to defy "radical evil"—a phrase originally coined by Immanuel Kant to describe those who surrender their freedom and morality to an extreme form of self-adulation and later adopted by Hannah Arendt to describe totalitarianism—without "sublime madness.

So everything that has happened to you, that will happen to you, that is happening to you is perfect for you. Treat it that way, and your whole existence will change — perfectly.

History taught that those who had power were generally loath to relinquish any of it unless they were forced to do so.

For the first time in his existence, he knew he was drowning and he wasn't thinking about survival.