Quotes About Surrender

You can be as mad as a mad dog at the way things went, you can curse the fates, but when it comes to the end, you have to let go.

Die while alive And be thoroughly dead. Then do what you will, All is good.

Jesus Christ our Lord surrendered in order that He might win; He destroyed His enemies by dying for them and conquered death by allowing death to conquer Him.

To reach perfection, we must all pass, one by one, through the death of self-effacement.

Meditation is a dress rehearsal for death.

Is that what death would feel like? The nicest, warmest, heaviest never-ending nap? If that's what it's like, I wouldn't mind.

I just think that funerals are a lot like death itself. You can have your wishes, your plans, but at the end of the day, it's out of your control.

To Death I yield, but not to Doubt, who slays before!

Renunciation means death of false ego.

Most people have died before they expire; died to all earthly longings, so that the last breath is only, as it were, the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion.

When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix.

To die at the command of another is to die twice.

At the heart of the gospel is a God who deliberately surrenders to the wild, irresistable power of love.

Human beings do not readily admit desperation. When they do, the kingdom of heaven draws near.

True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do his will.

Most of my struggles in the Christian life circle around the same two themes: why God doesn't act the way we want God to, and why I don't act the way God wants me to. Prayer is the precise point where those themes converge.

Again and again I tell God I need help, and God says, "Well isn't that fabulous? Because I need help too. So you go get that old woman over there some water, and I'll figure out what we're going to do about your stuff.

Often a work of God comes with two edges, great joy and great pain, and in that matter-of-fact response Mary embraced both. She was the first person to accept Jesus on His own terms, regardless of the personal cost.

Grace is for the desperate, the needy, the broken, those who cannot make it on their own. Grace is for all of

We whine about things we have little control over; we lament what we believe ought to be changed.

Can we live now "as if" God is loving, gracious, merciful, and all-powerful, even while the blinders of time are obscuring our vision? The

We pray because we can't help it. The

True followers of God quietly humble themselves and rise again courageously.

Only he who is helpless can truly pray.