Surrender Quotes

The fearful person wilts and submits to what they call fate. The fearless negotiates with fate for a compromise.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Let it all go and enjoy the profound gifts found in your quiet places.

~ Bryant Mcgill

All things are accomplished by the meditative act of releasing illusions and simply becoming.

~ Bryant Mcgill

I remember sitting and meditating beside a slow flowing river in India, and I got the feeling that this river could teach me all the secrets of the mystery of life. If we learn to surrender to a stone, a flower, to a man, to a woman, or a river, it becomes a door to the Whole.

~ Swami Dhyan Giten

Twilight, the only time of the day when the light and dark meet and become one. The bright powerful light of the day, calmly surrenders before the engulfing duskiness of the night. And the dense whelming darkness of the night yields before the surreal dawning saffron of the morning. The only two moments of the day that absolve the difference between ‘dark and light’. (Page 71)

~ Neena Verma

Our peace comes from remembering our wholeness and that the end of desire is the beginning of a life filled with Light.

~ Danielle Boonstra

To offer our very selves to another in love is to place that sacred trust in their hands; hands that may falter, leaving us rejected, ridiculed, abandoned and ashamed. In that very moment of surrendering to love we become vulnerable, our hearts and needs exposed to someone who may not cherish the gift we offer.

~ Mary Morrell

Surrender to the unknown and trust that the universe will lead you home.

~ Karen A. Baquiran

In order to grow you have to let go of all that you are and all that you know.

~ Maureen Rose Muldoon

The best way to handle life, is to put your life in God's hands.

~ Anthony Liccione

Do you trust Arman, Highness?''Yes, but--''No buts. Either you trust Him or you don't.'Achan shifted in his chair. 'Maybe I don't, then.''I agree. you don't trust Him fully or you'd know you did. Arman wants your trust, Highness. When he asks something of you, he's seeking your heart. Your attitude, your disposition, your fears, your strengths, your obedience, your allegiance. All of you. When you trust Arman with your life, you run the risk of exposing your real fears. You run the risk of Arman having total authority and say in your life. Most men don't like that. They like to be in control.

~ Jill Williamson

Your wisest moments will be those when you say yes to God.

~ Rick Warren

Eucharisteo, remembering with thanks, this is the bread. We take the moments as bread and give thanks and the thanks itself becomes bread. The thanks itself nourishes. Thanks feeds our trust...Manna with thanks, eat the mystery of the moment with trust, and am nourished another day - or refuse it... and die. Jesus calls us to surrender and there's nothing like releasing fears and falling into peace. This is what I have always wanted and never knew: this utter trust, this enlivening fall of surrender into the safe hands. There is no joy without trust! Page 158

~ Ann Voskamp

You shall find it greatly mitigates the sorrow of bereavements, if before bereavement you shall have learned to surrender every day all the things which are dearest to you into the keeping of your gracious God.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

When we embrace the opposites within ourselves and understand that inner harmony arises when they mature, we find the love, joy, silence and freedom that are hidden in every moment. It is my experience that it is through the inner female side that we find the depth within ourselves – independent of if we are a man or a woman. It is through the female side that we find the inner source of love and truth. It is through the female side that we lit the light of our own consciousness. The more we learn to know the inner man and woman and the more we accept their different visions of life, the more a meeting happens between them that makes us happy and satisfied. Through embracing both these sides in ourselves, we realize that we really lack nothing – but that we already are love. When both the male and female side is capable of living in trust, a love begins to flow between them – a love that was always possible, but not realized. The inner woman is the meditative quality within ourselves. The inner woman is the source of love and truth. The inner woman is the capacity to surrender to life. It is through the inner woman that we are in contact with life. It is the inner woman that is the door to belongingness with the Whole.

~ Swami Dhyan Giten

My fear of being real, of being seen, paralyzes me into silence. I crave the touch and the connection, but I’m not always brave enough to open my hand and reach out. This is the great challenge: to be seen, accepted, and loved, I must first reveal, offer, and surrender.

~ Anna White

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

~ Anne Perry

You owe it to yourself, to refuse to surrender to obstacles that are meant to stop you from reaching far in your endeavours. Be determined that you will never be a captive of your environment.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Adversity kills fearful people just by showing them its weapons. As to whether that weapon is fatal or fake, they don't care to know before they surrender!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

It all starts with you, and that which never starts, also finishes with you.

~ Anthony Liccione

I would like to say that I had all kinds of great ideas about what I wanted to do and how I wanted to do it. I would like to say my ministry was born out of a carefully thought-out plan. These things simply aren't true, though. I was walking through life one moment at a time, blown away by what God could do through me if I simply said yes.

~ Katie J. Davis

The word surrender has some shadowy connotations. We think it’s weak to surrender, but sometimes it’s the bravest thing we can possibly do. It means to give our will over to another . . . and when that other is Christ, we are surrendering our pride, our self-reliance, our will to do things our way. We trust Him more than we trust ourselves. The origin of the word surrender did not mean to give up, but to give over. We give our will over to God, let Him do what He will with it, and in the process we lose nothing, but gain much.

~ Toni Sorenson

From imperial, economic and ideological causes, many cultures are the inheritors, and hence the prisoners, of attitudes of scorn and disdain for other faiths – outlooks which are not ennobling to anyone.

~ Idries Shah

Surrendering to the best of my abilities when the price of life has outweighed its benefit may be a compassionate choice for me and those around me.

~ Lisa J. Shultz

...and awakening, at that moment, to the thrilling prospect of complete surrender, not just of one’s lips but of one’s entire body to a lover’s mercy, we recognized that the gap between compassion and surrender is love’s darkest, deepest region.

~ Orhan Pamuk

You will achieve what you want to achieve, only if you can cope with the theory of altruism.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

You cannot simply read the Quran,not if you take it seriously.You either have surrendered to it already or you fight it.It attacks tenaciously,directly,personally; it debates,criticizes,shames and challenges.From the outset it draws the line of battle, and I was on other side.

~ Jeffrey Lang

The greatest disaster of self; comes not with experience of failure, but the fear gained belief; about what you think you cannot achieve

~ Nikki Rowe

Don't run from your pain — run into your pain.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Act as though everything will be perfectly fine — because it will. Life has you and it's not letting you go.

~ Bryant Mcgill

The truth only comes if you are willing to face some really unpleasant things about yourself.

~ Bryant Mcgill

To heal, you have to give yourself to the pain. You cannot avoid facing yourself your whole life.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Failure generates its own majesty. Defeat becomes a panoptic stain on the soul; it creates its own all-embracing pathos. Reverses engulf us in fleshy feelings of self-pity, sorrow, and apathy. Resounding setbacks might even be subtlety attractive because it means we can give up trying. It is tempting to accept defeat, surrender to our insecurities, and admit that because of failing to accomplish one particular goal that the best part of our life was wasted. Cynically writing ourselves off as a failure, we are free to capitulate to the emptiness of our lives.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

The most critical time in any battle is not when I’m fatigued, it’s when I no longer care.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Without unreservedly surrendering myself to God, whatever place I might raise myself to remains nothing more than a step or possibly two off the hard basement floor of life, for of myself I can be utterly assured that I will never step out of the basement.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Surrender is a choice, it is never a calling.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

A part of me genuinely wanted to be the worst because I was so sick of everyone fighting to be the best.

~ Criss Jami

We rise up And we fall downOnly to rise again

~ Karen Hackel

Miracles can only inhabit the reality of our awareness when we surrender our need for the familiar to our desire for the limitless.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

If the Emperor had not delivered his [15 August 1945] address urging the Japanese people to lay down their swords—if that speech had been a call instead for the Honorable Death of the Hundred Million—those people on that street in Sōshigaya probably would have done what they were told and died. And probably I would have done likewise. The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self-sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life. We were accustomed to this teaching and had never thought to question it.

~ Akira Kurosawa