Surrender Quotes

The ego hates losing – even to God.

You cannot fulfil God's purposes for your life while focusing on your own plans.

Oh, the sweetness of giving in, of full surrender.

The Martyr finds her way to self-knowledge through pain, suffering, and surrender.

In our willingness to step into the unknown, we surrender ourselves to the creative mind that orchestrates the dance of the universe.

There may be some issue where God is calling you to surrender. I don’t know what you may be struggling with, but whatever it is, let me just encourage you: Don’t delay obedience.

Looking at my life I see that only Love Has been my soul’s companion From deep inside My soul cries out: Do not wait, surrender For the sake of Love.

Surrender to your own self, of which everything is an expression.

If you don't surrender to God, don't think you don't surrender. Everybody surrenders -- to something.

When it comes to love as a spiritual manifestation, it is an experience of utter surrender to that which is greater than any concept of love can define.

Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments.

Faith is not the result of striving. It is the result of surrender.

Do good when you remember, and what you forget will be revealed to you; and do not surrender your mind to blind forgetfulness.

When I look for happiness, I lose it. When I stop looking, and surrender to where I am, I find it.

Those who work the hardest are the last to surrender.

A big chunk of Western civilization, consciously or otherwise, has given the impression that it's dying to surrender to somebody, anybody. Reasonably enough, Islam figures: Hey, why not us?

Lord, I surrender. I am completely overcome by your love.

I surrender to the world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.

I have surrendered to God; therefore I surrender to nothing else.

Poverty hides itself in thought before it surrenders to purses.

As your act of dedication in this world you must finally surrender your own life to a life of service.

Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.

The deeper you surrender to existence, life, nature, the more loving, more understanding, more insightful you become.

You can learn much about life from a checker game: surrender one to take two; don't make two moves at one time; move up, not down; and when you reach the top, you may move as you like.

Love transforms, Love heals. But sometimes it lays deadly traps and ends up destroying the person who decided to surrender himself completely.

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.

Surrender the dream and the truth will be revealed.

Individually and collectively, we are shifting from a position of fear into surrender and trust of the intuitive. The power of the feminine energy is on the rise in our world.

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.

Education has to endow you with an eagerness to surrender.

Men do not settle down. Men surrender.

Surrender to life today. Don't fight anything. Just enjoy the flow.

So often our greatest triumph is a willing surrender.

The supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a simple datum of experience.

I write very rarely. Only, in fact, when the sheet of paper suffers an existential crisis and threatens, if I don't surrender to it, to bury me alive under its whiteness.

Whatever life takes away from you, let it go. When you surrender and let go of the past, you allow yourself to be fully alive in the moment.

When you surrender completely to God, as the only truth worth having, you find yourself in service of all that exists. It becomes your joy and recreation. You never tire of serving others.

Pol Pot will surrender, be captured or commit suicide.

What have we given? My friend, blood shaking my heart The awful daring of a moment's surrender Which an age of prudence can never retract By this, and this only, we have existed.

I'm partial to coffee shops, brain work, and poems on the page. I write after midnight. Sometimes, twisty syntax happens, and I surrender.

One writes not by will but by surrender.

The French - cheese-eating surrender monkeys. The Germans - schnitzel snarfing stormtrooper spawn.

As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.

God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.

I surrender myself to everything. I love, I feel pain, I struggle. The world seems to me wider than the mind, my heart a dark and almighty mystery.

But no one can lose sight of what he desires. Even if there are moments when he believes the world and the others are stronger. The secret is this: do not surrender.

Surrender means cultivating a comfortable attitude toward not knowing, being nurtured by the mystery of moments that are dependably surprising, ever fresh.

The surrender of oneself to a stronger power, the unification of one's own movements with the movements of the whole is what makes dance religious and lets it become a service of God.

Truth is not a mystery - its greatest secrets are yours to know through simple honesty and surrender to what that honesty reveals.

Brokenness is the shattering of my self-will - the absolute surrender of my will to the will of God.