Quotes about Surrender

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

There are two kinds of people those who say to God, Thy will be done, and those to whom God says, All right, then, have it your way.

The Cloud of Unknowing is an anonymous work of Christian mysticism written in the latter half of the 14th century. The text is a spiritual guide to contemplative prayer. "Be willing to be blind, and give up all longing to know the why and how, for knowing will be more of a hindrance than a help." This 1912 edition was edited by Evelyn Underhill, and contains her introduction.

How base a thing it is when a man will struggle with necessity! We have to die.

God asks no man whether he will accept life. This is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how.

Resistance causes pain and lethargy. It is when we practice acceptance that new possibilities appear.

I am like a little pencil in God's hand. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it.

Whate'er we leave to God, God does and blesses us.

Be God or let God.

It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.

All that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.

"You are accepted!" ... accepted by that which is greater than you and the name of which you do not know. Do not ask the name now, perhaps you will know it later. Do not try to do anything, perhaps later you will do much. Do not seek for anything, do not perform anything, do not intend anything. Simply accept the fact that you are accepted.