586 Quotes About Surrender

When we have no choice of what is to come, we must find the strength to have trust in what lies ahead. SURRENDER.

Real victory is based on surrender to the right things, while failure is based on the unwillingness to surrender to anything.

Prayer, especially when you have lost everything – including hope, is simple. Just surrender to the Higher Energy that governs all of creation. No questions to ask. No grants to seek. You truly don’t know what to do. So, you surrender. Offering yourself to be led, willing to go where Life takes you, to wherever you must arrive. Such unconditional prayer, in complete surrender, is Bliss!

Surrender your own poverty and acknowledge your nothingness to the Lord. Whether you understand it or not, God loves you, is present in you, lives in you, dwells in you, calls you, saves you and offers you an understanding and compassion which are like nothing you have ever found in a book or heard in a sermon.

Sadly, I put my dreams to bed long before they ever had the chance to get tired.

I’ve always marveled that geese can feel a call stirring, rise on hardy wings to engage it, and without contemplation, compass or map complete the feat. And could it be that they achieve this astounding accomplishment because far too often contemplation, compass or map rob the call by sterile analysis when we should liberate the call through expectant obedience.

Kamand, die every dayso you rememberto live.

The kingdom of God is an upside-down kingdom. It beckons us to gamble all, to trust radically, to come and die so that we might live--to give our lives away. Giving life away is a paradox. It's losing so we can win. It's giving so we can receive. It's risking for security. It's faith. The kingdom of God means living that tension.

Put your Isaac on the altar! Then, and only then, will you see what God can do. He cannot give back what you do not give up. But if you surrender yourself to Him, He will provide the ram in the thicket.