Surrender Quotes

If I see only my bias, I have surrendered to a single myopic lens through which to view the world. If I dare to surrender my bias, I will spend the rest of my life seeing the world and throwing away lenses.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

In the very end, all we have left to atone for our faults are words.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Kamand, die every dayso you rememberto live.

~ Kamand Kojouri

It is your ego that needs to explain itself. The self just is.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Have you ever given yourself to a kiss so completely, that you felt like you surrendered some of yourself and replaced it with a part of them?

~ Ali Harris

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.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Ashtadukht slumped and let thenightingale’s song flood her brain. She knew that empty tone, that defeatedoutlook; she knew it intimately. Even now, it burned in her as limply as asnuffed flame. Passion burned with unchecked verve, devoured its fuel, andsputtered out. Despair required no upkeep; it heaped barely-glowing coals inthe back of your mind and fuelled itself.

~ Darrell Drake

You are likely to lose the heat of your passion irrespective of how hot it was when you surrender yourself to a leader with lukewarm attitude.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Fear, anxiety, arousal, and pain; all are emotions and sensations. They are neither right, nor are they wrong; good nor bad. They are simply passions, a most important part of life. Feel them, fully experience them, surrender to them, and learn to accept them. As a submissive, you must let go. André Chevalier

~ Nikki Sex

I can only begin the process of saving myself when I surrender to the reality that I can’t. And what greater place to surrender that reality than to an infant who surrendered Himself to me so that I might surrender myself to Him.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

When God requires us to surrender one dream, it’s because He wants to hand us a bigger and better one.

~ Mandy Hale

The things we don’t stress tend to turn out best. Trust and let go.

~ Mandy Hale

That’s the thing about fear. It can only hang around until faith enters the room, then it’s forced to flee.

~ Mandy Hale

To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you revisit it, analyze it, regret it, or sweat it…it’s over. It can hurt you no more.

~ Mandy Hale

No matter how much you stress or obsess about the past or future, you can't change either one. In the present is where your power lies.

~ Mandy Hale

You will not mock me—and you will let me finish. I have owned and lost a kingdom, and I have battled death. I have been through all that, and I will not chase after you like some lovesick poet spouting verse. If you wish to call me yours, then you will have to act as if you are mine. On the front of surrender, there is no middle ground.

~ Nenia Campbell

Our lives are bound up with the lives of others. Our joy is bound up with the joy of others.

~ Ken Wytsma

Joy is a characteristic of spiritual maturity and of surrender.

~ Joshua Stannard

464Joy is found in the breath of acceptance knowing that all is well in our world, if we surrender with grace.

~ Jennifer Lynch

The problem with the ‘herd’ is that our voice is never ‘heard’.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

~ Karen A. Baquiran

Apathy is giving up when we need to get up.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

For the master, surrender means there are no experts. There are only learners.

~ George Leonard

I may not be free, but I’m not about to surrender the illusion of choice.

~ Johnny Rich

I sometimes wonder whether the act of surrender is not one of the greatest of all - the highest. It is one of the [most] difficult of all... You see it's so immensely complicated. It needs real humility and at the same time, an absolute belief in one's own essential freedom. It is an act of faith. At the last moments, like all great acts, it is pure risk. This is true for me as a human being and as a writer. Dear Heaven, how hard it is to let go - to step into the blue. And yet one's creative life depends on it and one desires to do nothing else.

~ Katherine Mansfield

Tomorrow can take me,” he said. “I don’t need today anyway.

~ Shannon A. Thompson

When I find that stubbornness continually overrides common sense regardless of the logic of my argument, it seems that the only effective solution is to tell them to go ahead and stick their finger in the socket. And what I find is that what my argument failed to solve, electricity does quite nicely.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

No one should be surprised at the difficulty of faith, if there is some part of his life where he is consciously resisting or disobeying the commandment of Jesus. Is there some part of your life which you are refusing to surrender at his behest, some sinful passion, maybe, or some animosity, some hope, perhaps your ambition or your reason? ... How can you hope to enter into communion with him when at some point in your life you are running away from him?

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Is not most talkingA crazed defense of a crumbling fort?I thought we came hereTo surrender in Silence.

~ Hafiz

You aren’t falling apart. You’re well beyond that. You’re just rattling along now. Elven dolls doing what little you can to gather the pieces as they fall away. But you don’t know how to properly reattach them—a doll does not repair itself. So you hug those brittle fragments to your chest until you simply cannot hug anymore. Until you’ve had to leave so many behind that you no longer remember what it is you’re missing.

~ Darrell Drake

Sheridan’s eyes fell to the watery gateway as he begrudgingly donned the novel wetsuit and pulled on the crown of arc lamps. Following Kunchen’s lead, he cinched it tightly around his waist, feet, and neck. And all the while his eyes returned to the teeming portal.Kunchen took notice.“This whirlpool is like the mighty river of life.” Kunchen said.Sheridan watched as Kunchen dipped his right hand into a shallow pool of ice-crusted water, scooping up the pristine liquid in his cupped fingers. He submitted the handful of water to Sheridan. With the gentle tilt of his right hand he poured it out, watching it trickle into his left hand.With unerring kindness in his eyes, Kunchen became the teacher and Sheridan the pupil: “Observe the water. It is soft, easily bending and transforming to its circumstance.”He poured the water from his left hand. It fell into the writhing water and disappeared in an instant.“But when it joins with the force of the whirlpool it becomes powerful and unstoppable. You must be flexible like the water, feeling the flow of life, tapping into its current. This is the only way.

~ Phillip R. White

Prayer is one action where I lay aside my abilities to immerse myself wholly in God’s capabilities. And the liberation found in such an action is less about being engaged with God and more about being freed from myself.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Surrender to God... When you surrender, God steps in for you and takes charge...By surrendering, automatically, the onus of your happiness and well being shifts on God.

~ Sanchita Pandey

Prayer usually means praise, or surrender, acknowledging that you have run out of bullets.

~ Anne Lamott

Make me little in mind, soft in heart, trusting in soul.

~ Eric Ludy

I just want to tell you if that's what You have planned for me, if I am meant to be an obscure flower in the corner of the expansive garden, I will live there and I will love You and I will bloom just for You -- only, always, ever.

~ Sarah Thebarge

Pray, and let God worry.

~ Martin Luther

Lord, I am willing to break MY heart that I might satisfy THY heart.

~ Watchman Nee

These two things are almost all I want, but unfortunately, neither one is my strong suit. I am very strong on blame, and wish this were one of God's values, but trust, surrender? Letting go, forgiveness? Maybe just after a period of prayer, but then when the mood passes and real life rears its ugly head again? Not so much. I hate this, the fact that life is usually Chutes and Ladders, with no guaranteed gains.I cannot will myself into having these qualities, so I have to pray for them more often, if I want to be happy. I have to create the habit, just as I had to do with daily writing, and flossing.

~ Anne Lamott

The most dangerous way we sabotage ourselves is by waiting for the perfect moment to begin. Nothing works perfectly the first time, or the first fifty times. Everything has a learning curve. The beginning is just that - a beginning. Surrender your desire to do it flawlessly on the first try. It's not possible. Learn to learn. Learn to fail. Learn to learn from failing. And begin today. Begin now. Stop waiting.

~ Vironika Tugaleva