Surrender Quotes
There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud.
Drop the mind and the divine. God is not an object, it is a merger. The mind resists a merger, the mind is against surrender; the mind is very cunning and calculating.
It is not enough ... simply to surrender oneself brainlessly to love, when it knocks at the door, one must also calculate because of later life, which does sometimes follow.
Modern philosophy certainly exacts a surrender of all supernaturalism and fixed dogma and rigid institutionalism with which Christianity has been historically associated
At the heart of the gospel is a God who deliberately surrenders to the wild, irresistable power of love.
Marriage is to me apostasy, profanation of the sanctuary of my soul, violation of my manhood, sale of my birthright, shameful surrender, ignominious capitulation, acceptance of defeat.
It seems clear that the Bible belongs to an area of language in which metaphor is functional, and were we have to surrender precision for flexibility.
Surrender is faith that the power of Love can accomplish anything even when you cannot forsee the outcome.
Through surrender the aspirant's ego is effaced, and . . . grace . . . pours down upon him like a torrential rain.
No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.
Instead of criticizing Masonry, let us than God for one alter where no man is asked to surrender his liberty of thought and become an indistinguishable atom on a mass of sectarian agglomeration.
Surrender is a state of living in the flow, trusting what is, and being open to serendipity and surprises.
Self-conquest is really self-surrender. Yet before we can surrender ourselves we must become ourselves. For no one can give up what he does not possess.
To struggle is difficult but to surrender is easy. Surrender is the beginning of devotion.
The emotional reaction in the peak experience has a special flavor of wonder, of awe, of reverence, of humility and surrender before the experience as before something great.
All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.
To the ego mind, surrender means giving up. To the spiritual mind, surrender means giving in and receiving.
Eventually you come to realize that most people aren't looking for a fight but for someone to surrender to.
Every genuine expression of love grows out of a consistent and total surrender to God.
Real love doesn't seek to acquire. It gives itself away. Its very nature is that of surrender, service, and generosity.
Let's forgive the past and who we were then. Let's embrace the present and who we're capable of becoming. Let's surrender the future and watch miracles unfold.
My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.
God has landed on this enemy-occupied world in human form...The perfect surrender and humiliation was undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man.
I want to surrender to the feelings and shapes of words and not stop until I am clearly heard by myself and my God.
The first thing a man must do if he desires to be used in the Lord's work, is to make an unconditional surrender of himself to God.
Poems not only demand patience, they demand a kind of surrender. You must give yourself up to them. This is the real food for a poet: other poems, not meat loaf.
Give up all bad qualities in you, banish the ego and develop the spirit of surrender. You will then experience Bliss.
Surrender to life itself and you'll just be rewarded with so many things. And I've been rewarded so many times, in so many mysterious ways. So I have no reason to be disappointed with anything.