Quotes About Surrender

Growth in love is not an accomplishment but the receipt of a gift.

Love is not about conquest. The truth is a man can only find true love when he surrenders to it. When he opens his heart to the partner of his soul and says: Here it is! The very essence of me! It is yours to nurture or destroy.

We are not made for life at all, old horse. It is made for us. We live it. We leave it.

A man takes what the gods thrust upon him.

Someone starts building war power—power to insure peace, as they always say. Then other systems must have power to protect themselves. Strength begets force—and fear and hatred. Sooner or later, the strain is too great, and you have a war so horrible that its very horror makes surrender impossible.

If disaster, so be it, they said to themselves. There was nothing to be done except what could be done. The rest -- like the salt water around them, which swallowed the snow without effort, remaining what it was implacably -- was out of their hands, beyond.

That is why three years later, when Obama surrendered Iraq to Iran no Republican dared accuse him of betraying the Americans who gave their lives to make Iraq independent, even though Iraq as a consequence fell under the sway of Iran and was providing a land conduit for Iranian weapons headed for Syria.

The heart [is] an organ that I find, if you have faith and know how to surrender to it, unfolds and unfolds in a most wonderful an unscientific manner, till it becomes the vastest and most pristine wilderness in existence.

Before we can pray, 'Thy Kingdom come,' we must be willing to pray—'My kingdom go!

Should it be ours to drain the cup of grieving, even to the dregs of pain, at thy command, we will not falter, thankfully receiving all that is given by thy loving hand. While all the powers of Good aid and attend us, boldly we'll face the future, be what it may. At even, and at morn, God will befriend us, and oh, most surely on each new year's day!6

Your will, not mine, O Lord.

Helplessness is the real secret and the impelling power of prayer . . . For it is only when we are helpless that we open our hearts to Jesus and let Him help us in our distress, according to His grace and mercy. —O. H. Hallesby

Therefore submit to God.… Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. (James 4:7–8)

Is it not reasonable, then, to trust Him with your world? When you feel overwhelmed with your problems and daily pressures, remember that God can handle those, too. You can leave them in His mighty and gracious hands.

Instead of getting what he wanted, he got what he needed—a deeper vision of God's grace and strength in his life.

breathtaking , adj . Those mornings when we kiss and surrender for an hour before we say a single word.

And If only I could, I'd make a deal with God...

But you have to figure that if it's too hard to hang on, then maybe you should let go.

There comes a time when the body takes over the life. There comes a time when the body's urges, the body's needs, dictate the life. You have no idea you are giving the body the key. But you hand it over. And then it's in control. You mess with the wiring and the wiring takes charge.

I realized that this was my life, and there was nothing I could do about it. I couldn't fight the tide, so I decided to float along.

I couldn't fight the tide, so I decided to float along.

Eventually, we all must go to sleep. This is our first intimation that the body always wins. No matter how hapywe are, no matter ow much we want our night to stretch out infinitely, sleep is inevitable. You might be able to dodge it for one giddy cycle, but the body's need will always return.

so eventually i gave up. i give up every single day.

Letting go is harder than you can imagine.