Surrender Quotes
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.
Come Friday, the world will see what the Protestant people really think of this so-called peace process, which is really a surrender process.
It is a natural impossibility for any man to make a binding contract, by which he shall surrender to others a single one of what are commonly called his 'natural, inherent, inalienable rights.'
V-J Day, or Victory in Japan Day, marks the date of the Japanese surrender that ended fighting in the Pacific.
The slow compromise, or even surrender, of our fondest hopes is a regular feature of normal human life.
Surely the gospel evokes unconditional surrender of all that we are and all that we have to all that He is.
Believing in the Jesus of the Bible makes life risky on a lot of levels because it is absolute surrender of every decision we make, every dollar we spend, our lives belong to another.
During any dance to which we surrender with joy, the brain loses it's controlling power, and the heart takes up the reins of the body.
... so in love the heart surrenders itself entirely to the one being that has known how to touch it. That being is not selected; it is recognised and obeyed.
Surrender your self-interest. Love others as much as you love yourself. Then you can be entrusted with all things under heaven.
Meditation is a surrender, it is not a demand. It is not forcing existence your way, it is relaxing into the way existence wants you to be. It is a let-go.
This is how we court girls in America. We grab them and kiss them. And if they don't like it, we do it again, harder and longer, until they surrender. It saves us hours of witty repartee.
When someone is drowning in the ocean of attachments, Surrender is the life jacket they can put on and wait for the rescue team
We should not shed tears That is a surrender of the body to the heart It is only proof That we are beings that do not know What to do with out hearts
Part of the thrill of guiding children into adulthood is the release. But it's also a parent's greatest act of surrender. Still, you have to let them go. Start now.
I had to surrender to not worrying about the way I looked, how much I weighed...I am not a woman whose self-worth comes from her dress size.
The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
There is nothing left for me to do but to go and see General Grant and I would rather die a thousand deaths.
If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.
Unless you have made a complete surrender and are doing his will it will avail you nothing if you've reformed a thousand times and have your name on fifty church records.
Don't go empty handed when going to a temple or to see a spiritual master. Offer something as a symbol of surrender, even if it be a mere flower.
My understanding is that to love, we need to be able to totally surrender to the living/dying nature of this world.
My staff was unanimous in believing that Japan was on the point of collapse and surrender.
Choosing joy involves spiritual surrender, and sometimes we would rather hold on to the pain than surrender our egos.
At its edges, a painting makes its surrender to reality. The ways in which it can do so are endlessly revealing, as infinite as the potential forms of painting itself.
God requires you individually to come up to the point, to make an entire surrender. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
When every man has realized that his birth is a defeat, existence, endurable at last, will seem like the day after a surrender, like the relief and the repose of the conquered.
I couldn't believe how good Jimi Hendrix was It was a really difficult thing for me to deal with, but I just had to surrender and say, 'This is fantastic.'
The purpose of polite behavior is never virtuous. Deceit, surrender, and concealment these are not virtues. The goal of the mannerly is comfort, per se.
I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me.
A man may be in as just possession of the truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.
Reason lost the battle, and all I could do was surrender and accept I was in love.
Freedom comes when you see the built-in contradiction of trying to manipulate something that is going right to begin with.... Stop trying to steer the river.
Suffering is just about the easiest of all human activities; being happy is just about the hardest. And happiness requires, not surrender to guilt, but emancipation from guilt.