Quotes About Surrender

I'm learning not to hope for what I can't control...

I give up," Mr. Poe said, and coughed into his handkerchief. "Five hundred is too much to pay for a big herring statue.

It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit you can do nothing.

We want the schedule for the next five years. But God says, "Take my hand. Let's just focus on doing the next right thing.

Yes is the answer and you know that for sure. Yes is surrender, you got to let it, you got to let it go...

I'll die young, but it's like kissing God.

When love is accompanied with deep intimacy, it raises us to the highest level of human experience. In this exalted space, we can surrender our egos, become vulnerable and know levels of joy and well-being unique among life experiences. We attain a glimpse of the rapture that can be ours. Boundaries are blurred, there are no limitations and we rejoice in union. We become one and, at the same time, both.

No matter what heroic acts I might perform, without God's grace I never could save myself.

But I wasn't surprised, or scared, or even angry. I accepted it like a friendly wind, come to fly me home. It's okay, I thought. And it was.

You can't bargain with God, Alex. You can state your good intentions, you can imagine the life you want, but you can't negotiate with Him. He holds all the cards.

You do not make yourself love... You allow love to enter you.

Rest requires us to give up any ideas about control: controlling our experiences, controlling our feelings and controlling how we rest. Rest is fundamentally effortless and detached from experience.

She had accepted the limitations of her life. It was this anguish, this contentment which created her grace.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

The road to becoming such a person-a child of' light-involves abandoning everything to God: what others think of us, what others' harmful motives might be, fears about what others might do to us, hopes for getting ahead. We come to truly believe that God knows what he's doing, and he'll keep on doing it (I Peter 4:19, m,,(,).

A peace washed over me when I knew God had marked me as HIS crazy person.

You see that I am a very little soul who can offer to God only very little things. — ST. THÉRÈSE OF LISIEUX

If he does not come to me, then ,' said she, 'I shall give him up for ever.

Her word had no weight; her convenience was always to give way.

for I have often observed that resignation is never so perfect as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value is our estimation.

I have often observed that resignation is never so perfect as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value in our estimation.

it was overwhelmed, buried, lost in those earlier feelings which I had been smarting under year after year. I could only think of you as one who had yielded, who had given me up....

If she went with him, she'd enjoy Kahil's revenge. She'd welcome the humiliation as it would be at his hands, in his hands, with his body.

Lord would provide, as he had all along