Quotes About Surrender

Once you've thrown your pilot chute, you're done. It's out of your hands. From that moment on you just enjoy the view or panic.

Your eyes are a blue universe, and I'm just falling into them. No parachute. I don't need one because I'm never going to hit the ground.

For all our secular rationalism and technological advances, potential for surrender to the charms of magical thinking remains embedded in the human psyche, awaiting only the advertiser to awaken it.

choices may be the cornerstone of individual freedom but, as the history of humanity shows, the urge to surrender to something larger and to transcend the self can be just as urgent, if not more so. The greatest propagandists and advertisers have always understood this.

In any situation in life, you only have three options. You always have three options. You can change it, you can accept it, or you can leave it. What is not a good option is to sit around wishing you would change it but not changing it, wishing you would leave it but not leaving it, and not accepting it. It's that struggle, that aversion, that is responsible for most of our misery. The phrase that I probably use the most to myself in my head is just one word: accept.

These individuals have riches just as we say that we 'have a fever,' when really the fever has us." –Seneca

Sometimes you need to allow life to save you from getting what you want.

As Brandon Stanton put it, "Sometimes you need to allow life to save you from what you want.

Let life ripen and then fall. Will is not the way at all."—Lao Tzu, from The Way of Life According to Lao Tzu

Sometimes you need to allow life to save you from getting what you want." Brandon Stanton

Oscar Wilde's advice, "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it

The phrase that I probably use the most to myself in my head is just one word: accept.

It is certain that one must utterly despair of oneself in order to be made fit to receive the grace of Christ.

Those,e however, who have been emptied through suffering [cf. Phil. 2:7] no longer do works but know that God works and does all things in them.

Courage is the key to creativity and to any relinquishing of ego structure.

If we could lift the veil and if we watched with vigilant attention, God would endlessly reveal himself to us and we should see and rejoice in his active presence in all that befalls us. At every event we should exclaim: "It is the Lord!" —Jean Pierre de Caussade

Repentance and faith must be your daily lifestyle. Why? Because it lays you low and lifts you up at the same time.

God is simply taking you where you do not want to go to produce in you what you could not achieve on your own.

Christ brings the assets. We bring the liabilities. Yet Christ still joins himself to us!

To what degree is the kingdom of God driving your life? Our money is an intensely personal part of our lives, and only an intensely personal relationship with the Redeemer can loosen our grasp on other things.

We love us and we have a wonderful plan for our lives! We have a dream. The problem is that it is not the Lord's.

At some point, every relationship brings you to the end of yourself, and with God there is no healthier place to be. When I am willing to confess how weak I am, I am most ready to reach out for the grace that can only be found in Christ. He was willing to follow his Father's plan and become weak so that, in our moments of weakness, we could receive his strength.

When I see my identity in Christ, God's presence and provision, and what he is doing in the process, I am willing and able to do things I wouldn't do otherwise.

Who is God using in your life this way?