Quotes About Surrender

The pig was soon dissected and its blood filled the bucket in the bottom of which a patch of sky was reflected darkly. It had surrendered to the vortex of life and his breathing.

Most persons have died before they expired - 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.

The meek are those who quietly submit themselves to God, to His Word and to His rod, who follow His directions, and comply with His designs, and are gentle toward all men.

He will take good care to provide what is necessary for our sanctification, provided we are careful to accept everything according to His designs.

Be glad in the Lord and receive willingly from His Hand all that he designs for my holiness - both painful and pleasant.

Horizontality is a desire to give up, to sleep. Verticality is an attempt to escape. Hanging and floating are states of ambivalence.

One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.

The only thing required of you is to allow all your raging desires to relax into preferences. Then everything will be done through you and for you, not by you.

Jesus, I live for Thee, I labor for Thee, I desire only Thee. Thou in me and I in Thee; Thou with me and I with Thee; Thou all mine and I all Thine.

Having realized that you cannot influence the results, pay no attention to your desires and fears. Let them come and go. Don't give them the nourishment of interest and attention.

I put my head out of my window and see how much the wind's knife wants to slice it off. On this unseen guillotine, I've placed the eyeless head of all my desires.

You may as well quit reading and hearing the Word of God, and give it to the devil, if you do not desire to live according to it.

If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.

I desire only Him and to be wholly His.

My praying friend, continue to make known your desires to God in all things. ... Let Him decide whether you are to receive what you ask for or not.

Be quiet now and wait. It may be that the ocean one, the one we desire so to move into and become, desires us out here on land a little longer, going our sundry roads to the shore.

You perhaps now know that desire reduces us to pulp.

I had to be healed of my desire to be healed.

How do you resign yourself to something that will never be? You stop wanting just that thing. You go numb. Or you kill the agent of desire.

I dare not say with Paul that I am the slave of Christ, but my highest aspiration and desire is to be the slave of Christ.

You don't give up the intention, and you don't give up the desire. You give up your attachment to the results.

All desires and egoism will have to be banished from the being.

To read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another

I no longer desire anything but to be Thine.