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Quotes About Surrender

I follow four dictates: face it, accept it, deal with it, then let it go.
~ Sheng-yen
Obey God and leave all the consequences to Him.
~ Charles F. Stanley
When we finally give up the struggle to find fulfillment "out there," we have nowhere to go but within. It is at this moment of total surrender that a new light begins to dawn.
~ Shakti Gawain
Many are willing that Christ should be something, but few will consent that Christ should be everything.
~ Alexander Moody Stuart
You can surrender without a prayer, but never really pray without surrender. You can fight without ever winning, but never ever win without a fight.
~ Neil Peart
Don't bother to give God instructions; just report for duty.
~ Corrie Ten Boom
God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on him.
~ Hudson Taylor
Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
~ Anaïs Nin, Henry And June
Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.
~ Blaise Pascal
In the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go.
~ Ally Condie, Crossed
You may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God.
~ C. S. Lewis
God seeks us where we are, not so that we stay there, but so that we may come to be where He is, so that we may get beyond ourselves.
~ Pope Benedict XVI
You can be too big for God to use, but you can never be too small for God to use.
~ Adrian Rogers
Our Lord's conception of discipleship is not that we work for God, but that God works through us.
~ Oswald Chambers
Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?
~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
When you don't know what the answer is, you know *Who* the answer is.
~ Larry Burkett
In the measure to which a man cuts off and humbles his own will, he proceeds toward success. But insofar as he stubbornly guards his own will, so much does he brings harm to himself.
~ Ephrem the Syrian
If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.
~ Joseph Campbell
Do not insist that the universe comply with your understanding of it.
~ Gary Zukav
Learn to hold loosely all that is not eternal.
~ Maude Royden
Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.
~ Anthony de Mello
God is God. He knows what he is doing. When you can't trace his hand, trust his heart.
~ Max Lucado
True mastery can be gained by letting things go their own way.
~ Stephen Mitchell
We may live victoriously, not because we have any power within ourselves, but because when we give ourselves to God, He gives himself to us.
~ Norman Vincent Peale