All Quotes By Tag: Surrender

“The most critical time in any battle is not when I’m fatigued, it’s when I no longer care.”

“We are at our most powerful the moment we no longer need to be powerful.”

“You are only a prisoner when you surrender.”

“Don’t despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don’t – surrender to events with hope.”

“if someone has just hurt you or broken your heart, if someone has just died, all the grace you need is there-waiting for you to receive it. As long as we are pulled inward-despair and self attention, we aren’t free to reach for God’s grace. If we mean to leave ourselves alone, we must keep a hand free.”

“Surrender is the ultimate sign of strength and the foundation for a spiritual life. Surrendering affirms that we are no longer willing to live in pain. It expresses a deep desire to transcend our struggles and transform our negative emotions. It commands a life beyond our egos, beyond that part of ourselves that is continually reminding us that we are separate, different and alone. Surrendering allows us to return to our true nature and move effortlessly through the cosmic dance called life. It’s a powerful statement that proclaims the perfect order of the universe.When you surrender your will, you are saying, “Even though things are not exactly how I’d like them to be, I will face my reality. I will look it directly in the eye and allow it to be here.” Surrender and serenity are synonymous; you can’t experience one without the other. So if it’s serenity you’re searching for, it’s close by. All you have to do is resign as General Manager of the Universe. Choose to trust that there is a greater plan for you and that if you surrender, it will be unfolded in time. Surrender is a gift that you can give yourself. It’s an act of faith. It’s saying that even though I can’t see where this river is flowing, I trust it will take me in the right direction.”

“I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.”

“Sometimes we have to surrender to something if we’re eventually going to have victory over it.”

“Anything that comes your way by force was not meant for you. Everything that locates you on it’s own was yours and will be yours forever.”

“You are conditioned to believe that if you let go, if you surrender, you will either be a victim of circumstances and not assertive in your own being, or you will be viewed as being lazy, lacking in willpower, and un-motivated.Yet will and power cannot exist alongside one another. Motivation does not come into question when you surrender fully into the present moment. Motivation to do, to take action, to make moves, comes naturally from this surrender.”

“The more material we lose, the less we have. The less we have, the more we win.”

“What is given to you is what is needed; what you want, requires giving up what you don’t need.”

“You need to trustTo surrenderTo ask for guidanceGo within for the answersThey’re within youYou have the answersAll you need do is ask”

“If God is going to be all that He is, I must reach a point where I am emptied of all that I am. It’s only then that the fullness of God has space in the emptiness of me.”

“The greatest angst imaginable is to create something magnificent for those I love and then watch those I love utterly destroy the very thing that I created for them. And while I would surrender under the weight of the resulting carnage, God took a very different approach and surrendered His son to repair the carnage.”