Quotes About Surrender

Everything works out the way the universe wants it to work out.

What empowers me in my daily work and life is the knowledge that I will be guided, if I let go of my need to control. That I need only to leave space for grace to work in me.

It is God who works in and through us, if only we would let God do His work.

God never seems to work at the speed that we want Him to.

Put yourself completely under the influence of Jesus, so that he may think his thoughts in your mind, do his work through your hands, for you will be all-powerful with him to strengthen you.

Oh God! If you save me I will work for you.

Our task is to relate our lives to God, and let Him work through us.

Work hard, and then let the universe take you where you're meant to go.

Dream big - dream very big. Work hard - work very hard. And after you've done all you can, you stand, wait and fully surrender.

It's not what you did, but what you could have done if you allowed the Lord to work His will in your life.

It was too much work to remember things you might not have again, and so one by one they opened up their hands and let them go.

When you have given yourself to Christ, leave yourself there, and go about your work as a child in His household.

Part of my spiritual work is learning to live with the knowledge that we can't protect our loved ones from pain and heartache.

I simply don't become attached to the outer world or to anything. I work for God. I do the very best I can, and then I give the results to Him.

Eventually you're supposed to get so confounded by this whole thing that you just give up completely, and that's when it starts to work. Not give up the practice, but give up trying to figure it out.

Travelling's not something you're good at. It's something you do. Like breathing. You can't work too much at it, or it feels like work. You have to surrender yourself to the chaos. To the accidents.

It is a vain thought to flee from the work that God appoints us, for the sake of finding a greater blessing, instead of seeking it where alone it is to be found - in loving obedience.

Birds buildbut not I build; no, but strain, Time's eunuch, and not breed one work that wakes. Mine,O thou lord of life, send my roots rain.

I can be poor, I can lose a job, I can have a hospital bill that I don't know how to pay, for I can do all these things through Him who strengthens me.

Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives.

God has a plan for every individual. We must only strive to achieve what we have to. He takes care of the rest.

The second is the structure and source of cults. They have always haunted me, and I wanted to explore the fundamental notion of giving up responsibility to an outside power.

If I can't find a way to love it, I let it go. Kind of the opposite of the popular homily.

One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.