Quotes About Surrender

As much as I acted as if I could move mountains with my willpower, like thinking I could force a new business win, I knew I wasn´t really in charge of anything. Deep inside, I believed that God was. But oh, how I tried.

Have you ever struggled to find work or love, only to find them after you have given up? This is the paradox of letting go. Let go, in order to achieve. Letting go is God's law.

You do not yet understand the God who works in mysterious ways. He decides when it is over.

You can have the other words-chance, luck, coincidence, serendipity. I'll take grace. I don't know what it is exactly, but I'll take it.

It is not the bloodletting that calls down power. It is the consenting.

And suddenly he knew that this was not, as he had been saying to himself, simply an unlucky day. It was a day dedicated beforehand to a lost cause.

It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

The way I see it, being dead is not terribly far off from being on a cruise ship. Most of your time is spent lying on your back. The brain has shut down. The flesh begins to soften. Nothing much new happens, and nothing is expected of you.

I like to read because it kills me.

Never load yourselves so, my friends. If you find yourselves so loaded, at least remember this: it is your own doing, not God's. He begs you to leave the future to Him, and mind the present. G. MACDONALD.

You had better make up your mind to accept what you cannot alter. You can live a beautiful life in the midst of your present circumstances.

I desire to think, speak, and do only what Thou willest. Lord, without Thee I can do nothing; with Thee I can do all." E. B. PUSEY.

In short I will part with anything for you but you.

for the purposes of my own spirituality, it is far more useful to recognize the limitations of my knowledge; to humble myself, not before a deity, but simply to be humble; to surrender, again, not to a God but simply to surrender; and to accept. Not accept certain facts; but simply to train myself in the practice of acceptance.

There is, in the end, the letting go.

Si tienes miedo a hacerte daño, aumentas la probabilidad de que eso mismo suceda... Sé prudente y sobre todo, entrégate sin reservas.

Olvídate de tus problemas de mecánica, así les quitarás importancia. ¡Sé imprudente y sobre todo, entrégate sin reservas!

Puoi negare la tua natura quanto vuoi, tanto quella ti riacciuffa al volo!

You don't win battles you walk away from.

Accept. Don't fight things, feel them. Tension is about opposition, relaxation is about letting go.

The text began to swirl and soon became indecipherable, in fast motion, as she felt herself weaken. She never knowingly let go of the #book, but there was a moment where she was no longer a person #reading it, and a consequent moment where there was no book--or library--at all.

When there is nothing we can do about something, the point of worry begins to diminish. "Everybody dies," wrote Nora Ephron." There's nothing you can do about it. Whether or not you eat six almonds a day.

You don't stop the rain by telling it to stop. Sometimes you just have to let it pour, let it soak you to your skin.

To be is to let go