Quotes About Surrender

The secret of Christianity is something else altogether—the life of Christ in you. Allowing his life to become your life. His revolution is not self-transformation, but his transformation of you, from the inside out, as you receive his life and allow him to live through you. Vine, branch. Anything else is madness.

I give the Self Life to you, God. I abandon it, release it, deny it, turn it over to you. I'd much rather have you.

Jesus, I surrender the Self Life to you.

I am surrendering it, turning it over to Jesus, relinquishing its every right.

The key to receiving answers to prayers for guidance is to let go of our constant attempt to "figure things out." Really

He is mad. It is me. I am his madness. For years he's been looking for something to put his madness into. And he found me.

It's as if we spend our entire lives avoiding Jell-O but it is always there at the end, waiting.

With approximately seventy thousand soldiers under his command, General King's surrender was the largest in American history.

She ordered him to surrender, and when he prevaricated, she sent spies to Strathbogie to arrest him

Next came "prisoners" captured at Boulogne, who were led through the streets in chains.

Have peace and know that the Lord will fight for you. The Lord's ways are not our ways, but in the end, He will bless you in such a manner that only He can get the glory, for all will know that it is the Lord who blesses you.

A] lot of them, without even understanding the cause, just give up. They take what they can-mostly in pleasure,and they make the grand gesture, the wild gesture, because what have they got to lose if they do die in a car wreck or a knife fight or something else equally stupid.

I think that was when the headmaster realized he had lost; he realized then that he was finished. Because, what could he do? Was he going to tell us to stop praying? We kept our heads bowed; and we kept praying. Even as awkward as he was, the Rev. Mr. Merrill had made it clear to us that there was no end to praying for Owen Meany.

There comes a moment in every life when you must let go with your hands—with both hands.

Well, you finally got me, Helen had whispered to him, tearfully, but Garp had sprawled there, on his back on the wrestling mat, wondering who had gotten whom.

We did not realize that there were forces beyond our play. Now I know they were the forces that contributed to our illusion of Owen's weightlessness; they were the forces we didn't have the faith to feel, they were the forces we failed to believe in—and they were also lifting up Owen Meany, taking him out of our hands. O God—please give him back! I shall keep asking You.

I sue not for my happy crown again; I sue not for my phalanx on the plain; I sue not for my lone, my widow'd wife; I sue not for my ruddy drops of life, My children fair, my lovely girls and boys! 550 I will forget them; I will pass these joys; Ask nought so heavenward, so too–too high: Only I pray, as fairest boon, to die, Or be deliver'd from this cumbrous flesh

Let us pray. We all slumped immediately and unthinkingly in to the awkward crouch in which God was addressed.

When we receive Jesus as Lord and Savior, one of the most important deaths we die is to the nurturing of our self-image.

You lose your grip, and then you slip into the Masterpiece.

Trying to force things only disturbs your goals. Forcing will not help. Everything happens in its right time.

When you have no idea how to surrender and you're tied up in knots, JUST BREATHE!

If you want to surrender to creativity, surrender to creation.

How seek the way which leadeth to our wishes? By renouncing our wishes. The crown of excellence is renunciation.