Complete Surrender Quotes

#1. I've been in love before. It's like narcotic. At first it brings the euphoria of complete surrender. The next day, you want more. You're not addicted yet, but you like the sensation, and you think you can control things. You think about the person for two minutes and forget them for three hours.

Paulo Coelho

#2. Unless you have made a complete surrender and are doing his will it will avail you nothing if you've reformed a thousand times and have your name on fifty church records.

Billy Sunday

#3. Making love to a Negro isn't frightening; sleeping with him is. Sleep is complete surrender. It's more than nude; it's naked. Anything can happen during the night, when reason sleeps.

Dany Laferriere

#4. There is not one verse of Scripture that indicates you can be a Christian and live any kind of a life you want to. When Christ enters into the human heart, He expects to be Lord and Master. He commands complete surrender.

Billy Graham

#5. How then shall a Christian bear fruit? By efforts and struggles to obtain that which is freely given? ... No: there must be a full concentration of the thoughts and affections on Christ; a complete surrender of the whole being to Him; a constant looking to Him for grace.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#6. You see, a potter can only mold the clay when it lies completely in his hand. It requires complete surrender.

Corrie Ten Boom

#7. Conversion is a complete surrender to Jesus. It's a willingness to do what he wants you to do.

Billy Sunday

#8. Intent of complete surrender (devotion) is worship itself. Complete surrender with (full understanding and real) knowledge is a very high level of worship. Even the surrender done with relative knowledge (ignorance of one's own real self) can be called worship.

Dada Bhagwan

#9. Thank God, I say, for while I love you so, With that vast love, as passionate as tender, I feel an exultation as I know I have not made you a complete surrender. Here is my body; bruise it, if you will, And break my heart; I have that something still. You cannot grasp it

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#10. Complete surrender usually happens through living. Your very life is the ground where that happens. There may be a partial surrender and then there may be an opening, and then you may engage in spiritual practice.

Eckhart Tolle

#11. Complete surrender does require that you have no desire of your own, that God's desire alone is your desire and that you have no desire of your own.

Ramana Maharshi

#12. Psychology has falsified love as surrender and altruism, while it is an appropriation or a bestowal following from a super-abundance of personality. Only the most complete persons can love. The depersonalized and objective are the worst lovers.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#13. Without an unreserved surrender to His grace, complete mastery over thoughts is impossible.

Mahatma Gandhi

#14. People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#15. She'd never been taken before, he realized. Not like this, where her surrender was complete, not when she couldn't separate some small part of herself to reach for control. And God, he wanted to take her, to destroy that fascinating and innate control.

Nora Roberts

#16. At a night like this,
where it's just me and the yellow moon,
I feel complete.

Kamand Kojouri

#17. Only Complete and absolute surrender.

Laurie Viera Rigler

#18. Mystical identification transcends the aristocratic virtue of courageous self-sacrifice. It is self- surrender in a higher, more complete, and more complete and more radical form. It is the perfect form of self-affirmation.

Paul Tillich

#19. Being under him, trapped, objectified, I lost all fear. With Jonathan, I felt safe. I felt a loss of control so complete, a surrender so honest that it became a luxurious indulgence.

C.D. Reiss

#20. You are not ready to accept the fact that you have to give up. A complete and total 'surrender'.

It is a state of hopelessness which says that there is no way out. Any movement in any direction, on any dimension, at any level, is taking you away from yourself.

U.G. Krishnamurti

#21. There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud.

Douglas MacArthur

#22. Only the soul that with an overwhelming impulse and a perfect trust gives itself up forever to the life of other men, finds the delight and peace which such complete self-surrender has to give.

Phillips Brooks

#23. The nefarious frost that slithers around my spine brings forth concern that Donovan is regressing and needs to be put back on the funny farm, yet my heart longs to surrender in harmony with his madness. Without him, I will never be complete.

Diane Rinella

#24. Faith literally means "to give up, surrender, or commit." Faith is complete confidence.

Billy Graham