Quotes About Surrender

We must die to become true human beings.

I know it's an experience that I need to have if God's putting me through it.

The simple intention to surrender control is all you need to experience miracles.

Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.

You will never experience the fullness of joy you were created to know until Jesus Christ has first place in every area.

Those who say in simple surrender 'Yes, Lord,' emerge from the experience spiritually rich, and become a source of grace and encouragement to others who are hurting.

True meditation is letting go of manipulating our experience.

The less there is of you, the more you experience the sublime.

The emotional reaction in the peak experience has a special flavor of wonder, of awe, of reverence, of humility and surrender before the experience as before something great.

We now come to the grand law of the system in which we are placed, as it has been developed by the experience of our race, and that, in one word, is SACRIFICE!

What would happen if you were to allow everything to be exactly as it is? If you gave up the need for control, and instead embraced the whole of your experience in each moment that arose?

The cross grants us position, the Holy Spirit gives us experience.

Human beings have a tendency to push away unwanted pain, but my experience is that when I give my consent to it, it delivers its gift and moves on.

We don't experience the world fully unless we are willing to give everything away.

Let weakness learn meekness.

When we experience stress, the nervous system tries to control things. Part of waking up is discovering what we are beyond that controlling organism.

It's easier to surrender to confinement.

Any attempt at liberation, no matter how great it might be, if it does not take into consideration the necessity of dissolving the ego, it is condemned to failure.

Success is generally due to holding on, and failure to letting go.

I kneel to my Lord because I am such a failure. I pray, I hope, I look to the Gospels.

Consider that it is not failing in this or that attempt to come to Christ, but a giving-over of your endeavors, that will be your ruin.

The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.

My faith rests not in what I am, or shall be, or feel, or know, but in what Christ is, in what he has done, and in what he is doing for me.

Ours is the Spirit of the Eucharist, the total Gift of Self.