Quotes About Surrender

When object of our anxiety is God, then that brings ecstacy.

God happens only when you have moved out of the way and left yourself totally empty, spacious. It is a very strange phenomenon: The guest only comes inside the house when the host disappears.

Creativity means you have to disappear, you have to allow God to be.

Suffering brings me so close to God.

I believe that God locates himself at the spot where you recognize your own fallibility....And the paradox of it all has been that whenever I give up I seem to do better.

The way God teaches us to live by faith is He takes away our feelings.

We receive God's grace by humbly admitting that we need it.

There is nothing God won't do for the person totally absorbed with pleasing him.

Perhaps God waits for us to be empty, so he may fill us with himself.

A man is what he is on his knees before God, and nothing more.

If God gave us everything we asked for, we'd be in chaos.

Body and spirit I surrendered whole To harsh instructors and received a soul... If mortal man could change me through and through From all I was What may the God not do?

The slave should be resigned to his lot, in obeying his master he is obeying God.

O let me be awake, my God! Or let me sleep alway.

If you incline towards God the passions that enslaves you will be rendered powerless.

Do not be obsessed by egotism, imagining that you are the cause of action, everything is due to God.

Surrender yourself to God and be at peace with him.

What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.

No matter what others say or do, even if the wicked succeed, do not be troubled: commit everything to God and put your trust in him.

Que le Dieu qui nous tue nous vienne en aide! God who kills us, come to our rescue!

Worship is an endeavor to bring to God that which costs you something.

In direct contradiciton to the American dream, God actually delights in exalting our inability.

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. God will be constantly crossing our paths and canceling our plans by sending us people with claims and petitions.

We must not simply desire God; we must live in total dependence.