586 Quotes About Surrender

At the point that it dawns on me that I am not God I have finally made room for God.

Surrendering is having an openness, it is a blossoming and encompasses the ability, to be honest, vulnerable, and trust another. Surrendering is not the same as giving into everything your partner says or throwing away your stance without reason. Surrendering is ending the resistance within you and the relationship as whole by coming together mutually and (w)holistically for the purpose of a greater understanding.

He was a man built to yearn for what he could not have.

True freedom is the willingness for life to be as it is, no matter how it appears. This willingness is expressed in the Abrahamic religions as “Thy will be done.” Paradoxically, in completely accepting everything just as it is, there is space for something truly new and creative to enter the picture. And this space is never not here.

The real challenge of life was not fulfilling one's dreams, but being willing to give them up for the sake of a greater call.

Everyone has known what it's like to see their dreams crumble. But these women...have found something more stable to hang onto. They're not content and fulfilled because circumstances turned out the way they hoped, but because of their faith in a God who is above circumstance.

I surrender my life to the Saviour, Jesus Christ.

Failure is part of life, but surrender is the end of life.

A man's only got so many yeses inside him before he uses them all up.