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Quotes About Surrender

Though I don't believe, I come to you now, and I lift my doubt to your mercy.
~ Leonard Cohen
Let him lie among the strings until there is no hope for his daily strategy, until he cries, I am yours, I am your creature.
~ Leonard Cohen
I confess I meant to grow wings and lose my mind I confess that I've forgotten what for Why wings and a lost mind
~ Leonard Cohen
He let me be a student of a love that I will never be able to give.
~ Leonard Cohen
Dopo un po', Tamara si addormentò. Era per evitare questo che aveva parlato. Il suo sonno gli sembrava una diserzione. Succedeva sempre quando lui si sentiva più sveglio. Era pronto a fare dichiarazioni immortali.
~ Leonard Cohen
Everything that occurs in your life is part of God's plan to wake you up.
~ Leonard Jacobson
My goal is GOD HIMSELF. Not joy, not peace, not even blessing but HIMSELF...my GOD.
~ Leonard Ravenhill
Are the things you are living for worth Christ dying for?
~ Leonard Ravenhill
If Thou canst do something with us and through us, then please, God, do something without us! Bypass us and take up a people who now know Thee not!
~ Leonard Ravenhill
And before we can be clean and ready for Him to control, self-seeking, self-glory, self-interest, self-pity, self-righteousness, self-importance, self-promotion, self-satisfaction—and whatsoever else there be of self—must die.
~ Leonard Ravenhill
To copy copies is not normally safe, but it is safe to copy Paul, for he was fully surrendered, wholly sanctified, completely satisfied,
~ Leonard Ravenhill
Dead to the world and all its toys! Its idle pomp and fading joys! Jesus, my glory be!
~ Leonard Ravenhill
The price is high. God does not want partnership with us, but ownership of us.
~ Leonard Ravenhill
The cost might be prison, for it were better that he should be ''the prisoner of the Lord'' for a few years than that his fellow men should be the devil's prisoners in hell forever.
~ Leonard Ravenhill
Brethren, to our knees again,
~ Leonard Ravenhill
God does not ask if we are able. God asks if we are available." And the weakness we offer him, he turns into a strength.
~ Leonard Sweet
You mean you are now my slave without illusions, and for that reason you shall feel the weight of my foot without mercy.
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
You were careless enough to leave me the choice. I choose therefore that you shall be my slave, and I shall make a toy out of you.
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
The Baron had become her slave: whatever she demanded of him he carried out with pleasure. When her humour so decreed, he would lie at her feet like a slave..., like a dog!
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
But you will only be mine under your conditions while I'll belong to you unconditionally
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
When we empty ourselves of our self-centered desires, when we surrender our desire to get our way, we are filled with grace. Each act of kindness improves our relationships. Each act of self-giving love expands our life.
~ Les Parrott III
It was the posture of utter surrender to the mercy and grace of a far greater power, and thus a clear statement, felt in muscle and bone, of the literal meaning of islam.
~ Lesley Hazleton
Only when self moves out of the way can His spectacular glory come cascading through your life. When Jesus is in His rightful place, all insecurity will fade away and His lasting loveliness will become the mark of your life.
~ Leslie Ludy
When we are passionately in love with our Prince, we put Him above all else--not just in theory, but also practically, in every moment of our day-to-day lives. We do not live for the applause of heaven. Our longings are not for people's approval but only for more and more of Him. We are marked by an effortless, unshakable strength that is found in the presence of our perfect Lover.
~ Leslie Ludy