Quotes About Surrender

God equates spiritual depth with obedience.

The real God...will give us more than we can handle just to show us that only he can handle things.

Jesus is not going to come join our lives. Jesus wants to become our lives.

They gave themselves up to the stars the way swimmers can surrender to the waves, and the stars took them without resistance.

Sometimes the simplest and best use of our will is to drop it all and just walk out from under everything that is covering us, even if only for an hour or so—just walk out from under the webs we've spun, the tasks we've assumed, the problems we have to solve. They'll be there when we get back, and maybe some of them will fall apart without our worry to hold them up.

A big chunk of Western civilization, consciously or otherwise, has given the impression that it's dying to surrender to somebody, anybody. Reasonably enough, Islam figures: Hey, why not us?

It came to my house. It sat on my shoulders. Your shadow is yours. I told it so. I said it was yours. I have carried it with me too long. I give it back.

Father Re put his hand on Pino's shoulder. "It sounds like too much to me, too, Pino, but I'm afraid it's not too much for God to ask of you.

The former head of the Indian Air Force, Air Chief Marshal Arjun Singh, was told to prove that he was not going to demonstrate at the Games. Lieutenant-General Jagjit Singh Aurora, who took the surrender of the Pakistan army after the Bangladesh war, suffered the same indignity.

I deal with temptation by yielding to it

We may train ourselves to be adaptable as possible, to respond appropriately in each situation, but the ideal of controlling the outcome or steering events as they occur must be relinquished. Chaos rules it all.

It was funny to just take a backseat and be like, 'Wow, I might be in this crazy place, but maybe I don't need to understand everything, maybe I don't need to be someone else.'

My knees on the ground, dear father, don't let me break, please make me stronger.

I don't suppose you would consider peaceful surrender?

It's complicated, " I said in defense, hands going up to show surrender."Talk slowly, " Jenna retorted derisively."Okay, I deserved that, " I admitted.

Why ponder thus the future to foresee, and jade thy brain to vain perplexity? Cast off thy care, leave Allah's plans to him – He formed them all without consulting thee.

Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.

There's great release, really, in not seeing into the future.

For a Christian, our fears about the future are rooted in those places where our will differs from God's will.

Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and to take as a gift whatever the day brings forth. [Lat., Quid sit futurum cras, fuge quaerere: et Quem Fors dierum cunque dabit, lucro Appone.]

Let's forgive the past and who we were then. Let's embrace the present and who we're capable of becoming. Let's surrender the future and watch miracles unfold.

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

For to save mankind's future freedom, we must face up to any risk that is necessary. We will always seek peace - but we will never surrender.

Becoming less focused on the past and future and not resisting the moment is how to overcome fear, physical pain, and all suffering.