586 Quotes About Surrender

Knowing you,I became mindless.Having wasted previous wishes,I'm riddled with regretsFeeling you,I became hopeless.Adrift in chasms,I surrender to a caress.Loving you,I became love.My universe became love.Planets rotate on love's axes andapples fall to be near their beloveds.No longer a rationalist, I assert my existence with love. I love, therefore I exist,therefore I love.

God is the water of the soul. Yet, with man there is only the rumor of water and the reality of sand. And our response to this reality is a steady diet of sand because we live in a steady state of stubbornness regarding the God of water.

The wisest thing that we can acknowledge is that we are not. The second wisest thing we can acknowledge is that God is. And the third wisest thing we can acknowledge is our need to surrender ourselves to both.

We know enough to know that all of this is not quite right. And we know enough to know that settling for what’s not quite right is quite wrong.

Pray is not the exercise of the faint-hearted, for it takes more determination than we can imagine to set aside the press of our agendas in order to partner with God in the working out of His.

Aligning with God is the only surrender that is followed by a perpetual victory.

When I surrender to God all of the things in my life that I have surrendered to, I have surrendered to ever having to surrender again.

It is only in reaching the end of ourselves that we finally realize that there is an end to ourselves. And it is at this end that we finally realize that God is finally able to begin.

Surrender to the unknown and trust that the universe will lead you home.