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Quotes About Surrender

There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.
~ Rumi
The more willing you are to surrender to the energy within you, the more power can flow through you.
~ Shakti Gawain
Everything I've ever let go of has claw marks on it.
~ David Foster Wallace
The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is the hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ.
~ C. S. Lewis
When resistance is gone, the demons are gone.
~ Pema Chodron
Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.
~ Simone Weil
If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
~ Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
I'd be a fool to surrender, when I know I can be a contender. And if everyone's a contender, then everyone could be a winner.
~ Coolio
God interrupt whatever we are doing so that we can join You in what You're doing
~ Francis Chan
It is a great deal easier to do that which God gives us to do, no matter how hard it is, than to face the responsibilities of not doing it.
~ Bill Vaughan
Afflictions for God's sake are dearer to Him than any prayer or sacrifice.
~ Isaac of Nineveh
The thing is, if I don't have sobriety, I don't have anything.
~ Matthew Perry
Knock, And He'll open the door Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.
~ Rumi
Do your best and let God do the rest.
~ Ben Carson
I don't have to know everything that's gonna happen, I know enough.
~ Esther Hicks
He must put aside his pride, his virtue, beauty and life and bow or submit to the absolutely intolerable.
~ Joseph Campbell
Worry is the activity of a mind which does not understand its connection with Me.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Yet never resist anything. If you think that by your resistance you will eliminate it, think again. You only plant it more firmly in place. Have I not told you all thought is creative?
~ Neale Donald Walsch
To live your life without expectation-without the need for specific results-that is freedom. That is Godliness.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
A true Master does not "give up" something. A true Master simply sets it aside, as he would do with anything for which he no longer has any use.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
You come to the master only in deep humbleness, because learning is possible only in humbleness. You have come to surrender, not to perform, not to manipulate, not to impress.
~ Rajneesh
The universe, I'd learned, was never, ever kidding. It would take whatever it wanted and it would never give it back.
~ Cheryl Strayed
You must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you.
~ Joseph Campbell
that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie.
~ Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist