Quotes About Surrender

#1. To become truly free, you must surrender.

John Ortberg

#2. The slow compromise, or even surrender, of our fondest hopes is a regular feature of normal human life.

Leston Havens

#3. surrender, and say, "My God, have

F.B. Meyer

#4. Strength is found in weakness. Control is found in dependency. Power is found in surrender.

Dan B. Allender

#5. [Your] dream will challenge, prod and haunt you until you surrender to its call.

Wayne Cordeiro

#6. Once we surrender our mind to God completely, He will take care of us in every way.

Sathya Sai Baba

#7. I would say I was always very ambitious and goal-oriented, but rather than being just a go-getter hustler, now I surrender a lot more and I trust my path a lot more.

Jenna Dewan

#8. The secret to happiness: resist nothing and surrender everything.

Maximus Freeman

#9. Mature love is not a surrender of the self but a surrender to the self. The ego surrenders its hegemony of the personality to the heart, but in this surrender it is not annihilated. Rather it is strengthened because its roots in the body are nourished by the joy that the body feels.

Alexander Lowen

#10. You will learn to enjoy the process ... and to surrender your need to control the result. You will discover the joy of practising your creativity. The process, not the product, will become your focus.

Julia Cameron

#11. Where is the delusion when truth is known? Where is the disease when the mind is clear? Where is death when the Breath is controlled? Therefore surrender to Yoga.

Tirumalai Krishnamacharya

#12. I'll stand with arms high and heart abandoned
In awe of the one who gave it all
I'll stand my soul Lord to you surrender
All I am is yours

Hillsong United

#13. You surrender to love; you do not accomplish love by willpower.

Richard Rohr

#14. Religion is an act of sedition against reason. Whatever religion is most seductive and likely to draw in victims to surrender their skepticism is the worst.

PZ Myers

#15. Surrender is when we stop toiling and striving and we begin receiving and arriving. Nothing is more beautiful to experience than the inner rest that follows surrender.

Shannon Tanner

#16. Surrender means cultivating a comfortable attitude toward not knowing, being nurtured by the mystery of moments that are dependably surprising, ever fresh.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

#17. God grants us an uncommon life to the degree we surrender our common one.

Max Lucado

#18. When we finally give up the struggle to find fulfillment "out there," we have nowhere to go but within. It is at this moment of total surrender that a new light begins to dawn.

Shakti Gawain

#19. God's glory in our lives has little to do with our sacrifice and everything to do with our surrender.

Alisa Hope Wagner

#20. I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can't be thinking of what XYZ has said about me. I need to surrender myself to my natural instincts. My subconscious mind knows exactly what to do. It is trained to react. At home, my family doesn't discuss media coverage.

Sachin Tendulkar

#21. What you don't do is surrender. You might retreat occasionally, but you don't give up.

Chris Brogan

#22. When it seems humanly impossible to do more in a difficult situation, surrender yourself to the inner silence and thereafter wait for a sign of obvious guidance or for a renewal of inner strength.

Paul Brunton

#23. God will not force himself upon us against our will. If we want his love, we need to believe in him. We need to make a definite, positive act of commitment and surrender to the love of God. No one can do it for us.

Billy Graham

#24. There may be some issue where God is calling you to surrender. I don't know what you may be struggling with, but whatever it is, let me just encourage you: Don't delay obedience.

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#25. If you love God, surrender to God, you can live in the moment, free of anxiety. Without God? You look ahead and see traps and pitfalls, you look behind and you see loss and death.

Suzanne Morrison

#26. You come to the master only in deep humbleness, because learning is possible only in humbleness. You have come to surrender, not to perform, not to manipulate, not to impress.

Rajneesh

#27. Instead of resisting to changes, surrender. Let life be with you, not against you. If you think 'My life will be upside down' don't worry. How do you know down is not better than upside?

Shams Tabrizi

#28. To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

Irving Wallace

#29. The life of entire surrender is a joyous life all along the way.

R.A. Torrey

#30. Creation not only exists, it also discharges truth... Wisdom requires a surrender, verging on the mystical, of a person to the glory of existence.

Gerhard Von Rad

#31. Surrender all thought, emotion, and circumstance to that which is bigger and deeper.
Surrender your identity. Surrender your suffering to that which is closer than identity,
deeper than suffering. Do you discover victory or defeat in this surrender?

Gangaji

#32. In body or soul, somewhere he struck a spark, and an answering fury of passion and need sprang from the ashes of surrender.

Diana Gabaldon

#33. Then let your love guide you. Surrender to your love for him.

L.S. Gagnon

#34. She'd hear in France. Surrender. Isabelle hobbled out of the room on her bloody feet and went into the backyard, needing air suddenly, unable to draw a decent breath. Surrender. France. To Hitler. It must be for the best,

Kristin Hannah

#35. Success for a woman means absolute surrender, in whatever direction. Whether she paints a picture, or loves a man, there is no division of labor possible in her economy. To the attainment of any end worth living for, a symmetrical sacrifice of her nature is compulsory upon her.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

#36. Take away from love the fullness of self surrender, the completeness of personal commitment, and what remains will be a total denial and negation of it.

Pope John Paul II

#37. The spineless pussy willows in Ottawa are actually helping to condition the Canadian public to accept the surrender of our country, which American forces were unable to accomplish in 1776 and 1812.

Paul Hellyer

#38. Whenever you surrender the most precious areas of your life to GOD, it's like trading in a pile of worthless pebbles for a truckload of priceless jewels.

Leslie Ludy

#39. God is there only if you surrender. Surrender makes anything God. Surrender give you the eyes, and everything that is brought to these eyes becomes Divine.

Rajneesh

#40. We think it's weak to surrender, but sometimes it's the bravest thing we can possibly do.

Toni Sorenson

#41. What have you done?"
"Sir," Jack held up his hands in surrender. "I know how this looks. You have every right to be upset."
"Upset?" he fumed. "Do I look upset to you?"
"You look upset to me," I noted.

Cecily White

#42. Wealth comes from big goals and sustained action toward those goals every day ... Never surrender.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#43. Lord, whatever You ask of me, I will do ... . Whatever You send or allow in my life, I will accept ... . With Your help I will endeavor to put the best things before good things ... . I present all that I am to You as a slave to Your purposes ... . I surrender it all to You. Amen.

Kurt Bjorklund

#44. To condemn someone to death is to surrender; it proves that you failed. You are not able to change him, to change her; you have to kill him or her. You surrender ... You only demonstrate your lack of capacity, your helplessness. This is failure.

Nhat Hanh

#45. You're also good at protecting and as such you became the woman you needed to be to protect the best part of yourself. The submissive little girl within who wants to play and trust and love and be loved in return without fear. Rene Tanner, Reclaimed Surrender

Riley Murphy

#46. The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

John C. Calhoun

#47. I couldn't believe how good Jimi Hendrix was It was a really difficult thing for me to deal with, but I just had to surrender and say, 'This is fantastic.'

Eric Clapton

#48. Childlike surrender and trust, I believe, is the defining spirit of authentic discipleship.

Brennan Manning

#49. I was not going to surrender to the status quo and corporate insistence that ordinary people have no power and influence.

Rebecca Solnit

#50. Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.

Elliot W. Eisner

#51. Dare not surrender to weakness you divine creation!

Bryant McGill

#52. courage is not something we can manufacture by our own efforts. But when we surrender wholeheartedly to God, he gives us the courage to face whatever comes. He gives us the words to speak when we are called to stand and voice our faith.

Francine Rivers

#53. A girl who would surrender every inhibition to her at night, yet still refused to become a dependant. Andria was more than erotic satisfaction, she filled the soul's longing.

Anonymous

#54. It may seem paradoxical, but you really do experience greater happiness when you choose to stop trying to control everything. And on a spiritual level, you evolve by learning the power of surrender and of love.

Susan Barbara Apollon

#55. She is like all the rest of them. Whether they are seventeen or fortyseven, when they finally come to surrender completely, it's going to be in words.

William Faulkner

#56. Immersed in surrender and gratitude, celestial pearls of wisdom form rosaries of prayer that entangle with my soul.

Earthschool Harmony

#57. One should be prepared to surrender completely, absolutely to the will of God. Whatever He does is for our good.

Nirmala Srivastava

#58. When you begin to surrender control and let God fill you with His love, with renewed purpose, and with a conscience at peace, then the joy welling up inside you will begin pouring out onto the people in your family aswell.

Stephen Kendrick

#59. Prayer is the way to die to our own wishes and surrender everything to God.

Scot McKnight

#60. If you want to surrender to creativity, surrender to creation.

Judith Orloff

#61. Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#62. Because the act of surrender means: I trust you.

Paulo Coelho

#63. What will not the heart endure ere it will voluntarily surrender the hoarded treasure of its love to the cold dictates of reason or the stern voice of duty!

Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

#64. Surrender had played out for good with me.

Jesse Jackson

#65. The heart's transformation is not attained through the mind - it's attained through surrender, authenticity, forgiveness, faith, honesty, acceptance, vulnerability, humility, willingness, nonjudgment, and other characterological values that have to be learned and relearned continuously.

Marianne Williamson

#66. Each decision - to kill, to sign a petition, to write a letter, to make a speech, to attack, to lie, to surrender - was made at some point in somebody's day.

Nicholson Baker

#67. When we surrender when we do not fight with life when it calls upon us we are lifted and the strength to do what needs to be done finds us.

Oriah Mountain Dreamer

#68. But here too it should be noted that the President's approach was to first ask the repressive and brutal Taliban to surrender Osama bin Laden to us, and only after that government refused to do that did we invade.

Barney Frank

#69. If all Christians must surrender their bodies to God in Christ whenever they enter the fellowship of Christ's body, then it should come as no great shock that God might actually make demands of those Christians and their bodies - demands proving that God, and God alone, has authority over us.

Wesley Hill

#70. Great faith doesn't come out of great effort, but out of great surrender.

Bill Johnson

#71. Grace is ever present. All that is necessary is that you surrender to it.

Ramana Maharshi

#72. Choosing to write a play is some kind of surrender. I don't make an outline. I sit and work, and suddenly the door opens, and out it comes.

David Rabe

#73. They deceive themselves who believe that union with God consists in ecstasies or raptures, and in the enjoyment of Him. For it consists in nothing except the surrender and subjection of our will - with our thoughts, words and actions - to the will of God.

Teresa Of Avila

#74. Truth withers when freedom dies, however righteous the authority that kills it; and free individualism uninformed by moral value rots at its core and soon brings about conditions that pave the way for surrender to tyranny.

Frank S. Meyer

#75. Accept disgrace willingly ... Accept being unimportant ... Surrender yourself humbly; then you can be trusted to care for all things. Love the world as your own self; then you can truly care for all things.

Laozi

#76. Today I will surrender to discipline. I realize that sometimes it takes time to see the fruits of my labors, yet I still need to practice discipline. Help me to remember, God, that I'm moving forward, and that I'm learning the very important art of discipline.

Melody Beattie

#77. Here's a summary for the time or attention challenged: Never surrender freedom for laws that can't affect criminals; they disobey laws for a living.

Wayne LaPierre

#78. One need not be a saint, or even a mother, to become a bearer of God. One needs only to obey. The divine resides in all of us, but it is our choice to magnify it or diminish it, to ignore it or to surrender to its lead.

Rachel Held Evans

#79. Happiness requires that we give up a worldly orientation-not worldly things, but a worldly attachment to things. We have to surrender all outcomes. We have to live here but appreciate the joke.

Marianne Williamson

#80. Despite the voices of the culture that would scream otherwise, victory is irreparably tied to the surrender of self. And that explains why so few are truly victorious.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#81. To surrender to God means to let go and just love.

Marianne Williamson

#82. Lips I ache to press to mine
Until the morning hour
Come with me
Across that line
Surrender to love's power

Madison Parker

#83. I want to surrender myself to you completely, Livy. I want to be yours. You are my perfect.

Jodi Ellen Malpas

#84. The other day the grass was brown, now its green cuz I ain't give up. Never surrender.

DJ Khaled

#85. What is it about tears that should be so terrifying? the touch of God is marked by tears ... deep, soul-shaking tears, weeping ... it comes when that last barrier is down and you surrender yourself to health and wholeness

David Wilkerson

#86. Being in nature refreshes us by ... allowing us to surrender to involuntary attention: the effortless and often enjoyable noticing of sensory stimuli in our environment.

Jennifer Ackerman

#87. It seems clear that the Bible belongs to an area of language in which metaphor is functional, and were we have to surrender precision for flexibility.

Northrop Frye

#88. Dear God, I surrender this thought to you, for I would see the miracle that lies behind it. Amen.

Marianne Williamson

#89. You could be thoroughly an intellectual while not surrendering maleness; you could not be so totally intellectual and not surrender some degree of femaleness.

Joyce Carol Oates

#90. I am the constitutionally and legitimately elected sheriff, and I absolutely refuse to surrender my responsibility to the federal government.

Joe Arpaio

#91. Surrender to your own self, of which everything is an expression.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#92. Ironically, when you surrender your need to hog the glory, the attention you used to need from other people is replaced by a quiet inner confidence that is derived from letting others have it.

Richard Carlson

#93. Do not surrender to any master; that would be slavery.
Surrender to yourself, for that would be victory.

Gian Kumar

#94. I always believe that one can't interfere in another's work. Once I start work on any film, I surrender myself completely and blindly follow the director.

Mahesh Babu

#95. The French are always reticent to surrender to the wishes of their friends and always more than willing to surrender to the wishes of their enemies.

Dennis Miller

#96. Often times, the greatest peace comes of surrender.

Richard Paul Evans

#97. We can do without any article of luxury we have never had; but when once obtained, it is not in human natur' to surrender it voluntarily.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#98. Death is a unique opponent, in that death always wins......There's no shame in surrender when it's time to stop fighting. --- Kal (the tattoo artist)

Steven Rowley

#99. I remain in a state of surrender knowing the Universe is supporting me in creating a life I love.

Renae A. Sauter

#100. We conquer ourselves by learning patience, for she gives to us our longed for victory only in the surrender of self.

Guy Finley