Quotes about Surrender

She was in the grip of an insuperable longing to fall. She lived in a constant state of vertigo. "Pick me up", is the message of a person who keeps falling.

It was vertigo. A heady, insuperable longing to fall. We might also call vertigo the intoxication of the weak. Aware of his weakness, a man decides to give in rather than stand up to it. He is drunk with weakness, wishes to grow even weaker, wishes to fall down in the middle of the main square in front of everybody, wishes to be down, lower than down.

God is love and doesn't ask for anything back in return. So it's that process of letting go and just allowing, and just being in that pure state.

Be strong, live happy and love, but first of allHim whom to love is to obey, and keepHis great command!

That we ought, once for all, heartily to put our whole trust in GOD, and make a total surrender of ourselves to Him, secure that He would not deceive us.

That we ought to give ourselves up to GOD, with regard both to things temporal and spiritual, and seek our satisfaction only in the fulfilling of His will, whether He lead us by suffering or by consolation, for all would be equal to a soul truly resigned

If we continue to hold on to a dream for something in the future, we lose the present moment. And if we lose the present, we lose everything.

All that is dear to me and everyone I love are of the nature to change. There is no way to escape being separated from them. I cannot keep anything. I come here empty-handed, and I go empty-handed.

It would be all right if I could pray in this way, or in that other way, if I were just able to give You the only thing You want: not my thoughts and feelings and resolutions, but myself. But that is just what I am unable to do, because in the superficiality of the ordinary routine into which my life is cast, I am a stranger to myself. And how can I seek You, being so distant, how can I give myself up to You, when I haven't been able as yet to find myself?

Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.

Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.

The freedom of the man of God has nothing to do with autonomy and does not stand opposed to submission to God.