Quotes About Surrender

I have been defeated, and in the defeat I have won myself. It is a pleasure to die at the hands of Life.

you can do nothing to stop the ocean or the sky from what it will do.

God wants us to be forgiven more than we ourselves want to be forgiven.

Our task in life consists precisely in a form of letting go of fear and expectations, an attempt to purely give oneself to the impact of the present.

For a moment something struggles inside her. Then her mind empties and she surrenders. Fighting fate is too difficult. She must save herself to fight whatever fate throws up.

Now it was time for others to take up the battle because he had given up trying to save or change the world. He simply wanted to survive it.

But he'd never been in love. He knew that was what he was really asking himself. He'd never given himself to someone else completely. He'd always held something back, even if he hadn't known that he was doing it. He'd reserved the deepest part of him, the part that truly was him, because he'd feared that once he gave it away he would never get it back.

I feel like I'm always trying to keep control of my life. Sometimes I'd like to be able to just let go and fall.

It's sort of perfect, when you think about it. Isn't falling in love a lot like losing your head?

But I know God has big stuff planned that ultimately doesn't have anything to do with me.

true blessings come not from stuff or from satisfying the self; they come from submitting one's self to God.

Once a person gives up, it becomes surprisingly easy to die.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Let us a little permit Nature to take her own way; she better understands her own Affairs than we.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you don't bother your head about it.

Were they ready to give up everything for their country? I felt ready to give up everything, not really for my country, but in general.

the truth is that men were simply giving up the ghost.

Lord free me of myself, so I can please you!

And in the midst of that calling, God then called me to run for the United States Congress. And I thought, "What in the world would that be for?" And my husband said, "You need to do this." And I wasn't so sure. And we took three days, and we fasted and we prayed. And we said "Lord, is this what you want, are you sure? Is this your will?" And after, along about the afternoon of day two, He made that calling sure.

Patrick: Is fear rith maith n? drochseasamh. Jessica:And that means what? Patrick: A good run is better than a bad stand. Jessica: Oh. And that means what? Patrick: It means, Jessica, that life is about choices. Sometimes you fight, sometimes you flee, but you never surrender.

Jesus, you love my children more than I ever will, so by faith I give them and their choices to you. Please infuse your Holy Spirit-guided thoughts into every decision they make, and bless them for each one they make in obedience to you. When they don't obey you, Lord, then I relinquish them to you once again to steer them back to you in your way and in your time. Amen.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God. C. S. Lewis

We stop living the life that He planned for us, and we start living out of dysfunction instead.

I had struggled so hard and so long that I had simply exhausted myself, only to find that God had all the time in the world to wait for me to allow Him to free me.