Quotes about Surrender

It is for us to console our Lord, and not for Him to console us.

Love will consume us only in the measure of our self-surrender.

In Heaven, God will do all I desire, because on earth I have never done my own will.

Et le Seigneur se pencha, il cueillit doucement la fleur embaumée, il détacha sans effort sa grappe chérie du cep amer de l'exil, la trouvant totalement dorée des feux de l'Amour divin. Quelles

I feel that if You found a soul weaker and littler than mine, which is impossible, You [35]would be pleased to grant it still greater favors, provided it abandoned itself with total confidence to Your Infinite Mercy.

IN order that Love may be fully satisfied it must needs stoop to very nothingness and transform that nothing into fire.

you must be always as a drop of dew hidden in the heart of this beautiful Lily of the valley ... One must be so little to draw near to Jesus, and few are the souls that aspire to be little and unknown. ... Our Beloved needs neither our brilliant deeds nor our beautiful thoughts. ... The Lily of the valley asks but a single dewdrop, which for one night shall rest in its cup, hidden from all human eyes.

Having forsaken all things, a man should forsake himself.

I have never asked God to let me die young, It is true I have always thought I should do so, but it is a favour I have not tried to obtain.

No man ruleth safely but he that is willingly ruled.

The Lord bestows his blessings there, where he finds the vessels empty.

Greater is Your care for me than all the care I am able to take from myself.