Quotes About Surrender

Never is a man more ready to accept the Lord than when he faces his own mortality.

I give a patient God My patient heart.

Give me a shot to remember And you can take all the pain away from me A kiss and I will surrender The sharpest lives are the deadliest to lead A light to burn all the empires So bright the sun is ashamed to rise and be And I'm in love with all of those vampires So you can leave like the sane abandoned me

The inability to yield control is often misinterpreted as inability or weakness. Giving up control is often confused with giving up. 223

Giving up control is often confused with giving up.

We are always hard with ourselves when we refuse God something.

Surrender to God is the only absolute power that the creature possesses. Only the handmaid of the Lord is the Queen of Heaven.

Imprint thyself more deeply upon me, thou image of my King, thou, not I, shalt dwell in my soul, in my heart, in my countenance, on my lips, thou, not I, so long as I live, only thou!

For his redemption, man has nothing to contribute to God other than the readiness of unconditional surrender. The passive acceptance inherent in woman, which ancient philosophy regarded as purely negative, appears in the Christian order of grace as the positively decisive factor. The Marian dogma, reduced to a brief formula, denotes the doctrine of the cooperation of the creature in the work of redemption.

The resistance of the world to Christ's love is great and reaches very far. Its degrees are many and various, but in essence it is always the same; it is always that mysterious No to an absolute surrender.

For nothing on earth so dulls the soul, or inflicts on it such speedy and sure harm, as when it sees and learns that all the things that ought to be expressed only on bended knee and with the full surrender of oneself, are also being continually expressed without this surrender, and without this bending of the knee.

The problem is that we like to control everything: a stupid, pointless, unhealthy idea. We need to have the opposite attitude, accept the fact that nobody really has any control over his or her own life: that was what the barman Nicola, from the Caffè Bohème, had said to him once.

That has nothing to do with it. Abraham had no desire to leave his homeland, but God commanded him, and he had no choice but to go. Others of our family have also been chosen when they did not expect it. God has reached out and touched them and put them in directions they never dreamed. You, I think, will be one of these men, Moses of the tribe of Levi!

Faith is two empty hands held open to receive the Lord Jesus Christ.

tomb, and now He invites everyone who is tired and weary and sick to come that he may set you free from all of it. As we sing, will you come and give your heart and soul and body to the Lord Jesus Christ.

Ah, lady, when I gave my heart to thee, It passed into thy lifelong regency.

What do you call that moment when we let go of the conviction, albeit illusory, that life will only grow larger? That the horizon will always expand?

We often mistake letting go for giving up. Knowing the difference between the two can make all the difference in the end.

Relinquish the notion of lost opportunity and try on a new reality: "Where I am is where I'm supposed to be.

During those days of whirling about the globe, I had an epiphany: travel was the only area of my life where I had no expectations. I anticipated nothing while fully engaging each moment. What bred adventure, surprise and deep experience was not knowing, surrendering to now and letting go of control.

Then I'd go home, return to a pattern of worry, unable to tap the surrender core to travel's inspiration. What was different?

Avoid the temptation to force a moment so you won't miss the one with your name on it.

You need nothing more than the experience you are having right now. It is enough. It is plenty. It is perfect just as it is. It was designed for you, given to you for your experience. All you have to do, and all you have ever had to do is accept this gift. Take it and let it in. Let yourself experience the present moment just as it is. It doesn't get any better than this. This is the simple truth the ego refuses to accept, and it will suffer as long as that is the case.

What we resist persists.