Surrender Quotes

There are five possible operations for any army. If you can fight, fight; if you cannot fight, defend; if you cannot defend, flee; if you cannot flee, surrender; if you cannot surrender, die.

When we surrender to His timing, He does mighty things in and for us, according to His will and His timing. God acts on behalf of those who wait for Him.

Surrender is the ultimate technique to merge with existence.

Surrender is not a weakness it is strength.It takes tremendous strength to surrender life to the supreme - to the cosmic unfolding.

When it seems humanly impossible to do more in a difficult situation, surrender yourself to the inner silence and thereafter wait for a sign of obvious guidance or for a renewal of inner strength.

By whatever path you go, you will have to lose yourself in the one. Surrender is complete only when you reach the stage 'Thou art all' and 'Thy will be done'.

Don't seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.

Attack if you can attack, defend if you can't attack, flee if you can't defend, surrender if you can't flee, die if you can't surrender!

To be ones self and unafraid whether right or wrong is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

Strength is found in weakness. Control is found in dependency. Power is found in surrender.

A born Texan has instilled in his system a mind-set of no retreat or no surrender. I wish everyone the world over had the dominating spirit that motivates Texans.

There is no such thing as helplessness. It's just another word for giving up.

Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops.

The power of the state is measured by the power that men surrender to it.

Love rests on two pillars: surrender and autonomy. Our need for togetherness exists alongside our need for separateness.

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.

You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

We have to surrender ourselves completely to the Lord with faith and devotion in Him, serve others to the best of our capacity, and never be a source of sorrow to anybody.

Every problem contains a solution. The key is self-discipline and surrender of the mental habits to the Holy Spirit.

The devil would gladly give a Bible to every man and promote obedience to its commands if in exchange we would surrender to him the Gospel

Nothing in the world is as fearsome as a bloody, battered opponent who will never surrender.

I leave for the guidance of other revolutionaries, who may tread the path which I have trod, this advice; never treat with the enemy, never to surrender to his mercy, but to fight to a finish.

You are only a prisoner when you surrender.

Grace is ever present. All that is necessary is that you surrender to it.

Army requests immediate permission to surrender in order to save lives of remaining troops.

All the buried seeds crack open in the dark the instant they surrender to a process they can't see.

Surrender and living in the present are one and the same.

I seek no values by means of evil, nor do I surrender my values to evil.

Surrender is the inner transition from resistance to acceptance, from no to yes.

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

Rational assessments too often led to rational surrenders.

One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.

We have not come here to take prisoners But to surrender ever more deeply To freedom and joy.

There are five options in war: fight, defend, flee, surrender, or die. You have proven inept at the first two, and now have the temerity to surrender. Death is all you deserve!

Yes! live life with every fibre of one's being, surrender oneself to it, with no thoughts of rebellion, without deluding oneself that one can improve it and render it painless.

Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.

Surrender yourselves then to be led and disposed of just as God pleases, with respect both to your outward and inward state.

To be defeated and yet not surrender, this is victory.

Silence is complicity. Speak now or surrender your ground.

Those who say in simple surrender 'Yes, Lord,' emerge from the experience spiritually rich, and become a source of grace and encouragement to others who are hurting.

I would rather die a thousand deaths than surrender.

He knows what He is doing with me. I cannot always understand His way, but I am content in the realization that He knows what is best. That is surrender.

Life can become once more a grand adventure if we will surrender it to god. He brings one adventure to an end, only to open another to us. With him we must be ready for anything.

Love is a lot like dancing; you just surrender to the music.

The first treasure California began to surrender after the Gold Rush as the oldest: her land.

If you don't surrender to Christ, you surrender to chaos.

Surrender happens by Grace. All we're doing is cleaning up the room so when Surrender walks in, He can sit down.

When you surrender to what is and so become fully present, the past ceases to have any power. You do not need it anymore. Presence is the key. Now is the key.

Whenever you surrender the most precious areas of your life to GOD, it's like trading in a pile of worthless pebbles for a truckload of priceless jewels.

When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else … you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.