Surrender Life Quotes

#1. Surrender is not a weakness it is strength.It takes tremendous strength to surrender life to the supreme - to the cosmic unfolding.

Mooji

#2. What's hard is not having that hope. I can't imagine going through bad times without that peace. Without that surrender, life just eats you up. Spits you out. Wears you down to nothing.

Jenny B. Jones

#3. The moment of surrender is not when life is over. It's when it begins.

Marianne Williamson

#4. At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.

Maya Angelou

#5. And a sensible work strategy might be: surrender to the task but not to the taskmaster, become absorbed in the work itself but never absorb the work ethos.

Michael Foley

#6. The debris of her married life was enough to sever the tie between reality and dreams, the fine line between desire and temptation. Where did she draw the line? When did she admit defeat and surrender?

Callie Hunter

#7. Extravagant love, as in every generation before us, has been ridiculed and scorned. it is seen as wasteful and reckless overspending. But extravagant love, the offering of everything, the emptying of the pockets of our life, is the essence of true Christianity.

Eric Ludy

#8. In our abandonment we give ourselves over to God just as God gave Himself for us, without any calculations. The consequences of abandonment never enter into our outlook because our life is taken up in Him.

Oswald Chambers

#9. There is a sweetness to life that can only be tasted when our eyes are truly open to our purpose and calling. The taste becomes richer still when we surrender to it.

DeAnna Kinney

#10. How long will you carry this burden - the fame you earned by frivolous alms? Give it to him who owns the whole, the Lord of earth and the skies above.

Preeth Nambiar

#11. I will not. I will never surrender. I will fight through to the finsh, whatever the outcome. I will not quit. I will not betray and desert the best thing in my life. No, no, I will not surrender...Earth is the place for love.

Edward Abbey

#12. I tend to be really pragmatic, but ultimately tend to be attracted to people who pull me into more spontaneity. I've really learned that, through surrender, the best experiences of my life have happened.

Amy Adams

#13. To have as one's ever-present friend, and to be conscious that one has as his ever-present friend, the Holy Spirit and to surrender one's life in all it's departments entirely to His control - this is true Christian living.

R.A. Torrey

#14. 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

#15. I will not leave South Africa, nor will I surrender. Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days.

Nelson Mandela

#16. If you are a real writer, then just surrender to the writer's life, all of it, even the bad stuff. When you do that, the beauty appears: the peace, the meaning, the joy, the fulfillment, the sense that you are doing what you were born to do and what could be better, in the end, than that?

Lauren B. Davis

#17. God never loses any part of our past for his future when we surrender ourselves to him. Every mistake, sin, and detour we take in the journey of life is taken by God and becomes his gift for a future of blessing.

Peter Scazzero

#18. As your act of dedication in this world you must finally surrender your own life to a life of service.

Reshad Feild

#19. Life insurance can be numbingly complicated. Clients often turn off their brains and surrender their judgment to the very agent or planner who brought on their coma in the first place.

Jane Bryant Quinn

#20. 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

#21. There is no greater stupidity than for people ... to marry and so surrender themselves to the small miseries of domestic and private life.

Karl Marx

#22. Don't try to build Me into your life anymore. Instead, build your life around Me.

Eric Ludy

#23. If you want to dance the dance then you better learn the steps, the world has enough pretenders. If you want to practice sex then you better find a partner, and to love you must surrender.

Carroll Bryant

#24. Failure is part of life, but surrender is the end of life.

Debasish Mridha

#25. Your life has a natural motion. Surrendering reveals how flowing this life could be.

Kelly Martin

#26. One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.

Elisabeth Elliot

#27. If you can truly surrender to Him, you will do more, be more, experience more. Life will just be more.

Mark Batterson

#28. I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.

Enoch Powell

#29. Life is unfair, princess. Bad things happen to good people. Lady Luck is a motherfucking bitch. But we keep our chins up. We don't give up. We don't surrender. And we come back swinging.

Elle Aycart

#30. I was a slave to something he believed to be silly and superstitious: the idea that all life was worth defending and that nothing justified surrender to the forces of destruction.

Rick Yancey

#31. 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

#32. Sometimes the writer has to learn the hard way of creating a bad work to become a best-seller yet doesn't surrender to the negative where other writers will.

Millicent Ashby

#33. The more you go with the flow of life and surrender the outcome to God, and the less you seek constant clarity, the more you will find that fabulous things start to show up in your life.

Mandy Hale

#34. One that society can't forgive, but I can.

Dennis Lehane

#35. Soul-to-soul contact sweeps through, like a tsunami, leaving in its wake just this: unconditional surrender and overwhelming gentleness.

Laurie Nadel

#36. 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

#37. Yes! live life with every fibre of one's being, surrender oneself to it, with no thoughts of rebellion, without deluding oneself that one can improve it and render it painless.

Emile Zola

#38. What was life like ?
deprivation and abundance, side by side like a miracle. surrender to them both .
Poverty and sunshine, poverty and jewels in the sky .
Drought and the gushing Nile
Disease and clean hearts, stories from neighbours and relationships .

Leila Aboulela

#39. Love is a flower that blooms so tender, each kiss a dew drop of sweet surrender. Love is a moment of life enchanting, let's take that moment that tonight is granting.

Dean Martin

#40. Cast yourself upon, abandon yourself to this Christ who lived that life of utter surrender to God that He might prepare a new nature which He could impart to you and in which He might make you like Himself.

Andrew Murray

#41. Beloved, surrender wholeheartedly to Jesus Christ, who loves you. As you drink from the deep well of Scripture, the Lord will refresh you and cleanse you, mold you and re-create you through His Living Word. For the Bible is the very breath of God, giving life eternal to those who seek Him.

Francine Rivers

#42. Nothing happens without God's will, and life doesn't always go according to plan. Man proposes, God disposes. And it is God's will that we need to surrender to. In retrospect it usually all makes sense.

Kristiane Backer

#43. 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

#44. As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it.

Martin Van Buren

#45. Quit hanging on to the handrails ... Let go. Surrender. Go for the ride of your life. Do it every day.

Melody Beattie

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

Bryant McGill

#47. Celibacy is a great help, inasmuch as it enables one to lead a life of full surrender to God.

Mahatma Gandhi

#48. Surrender. Surrender.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#49. Pain we surrender to God is not wasted but like labor pains it bears fruit and brings new life.

Barbara Hosbach

#50. There is nothing more perplexing in life than to know at what point you should surrender your intellect to your faith.

Margot Asquith

#51. The worth is in the act. Your worth halts when you surrender your will to change and experience life. But options are before you; choose one and dedicate yourself to it. The deeds will give you a new hope and purpose.

Christopher Paolini

#52. There is not a place to which the Christian can withdraw from the world, whether it be outwardly or in the sphere of the inner life. Any attempt to escape from the world must sooner or later be paid for with a sinful surrender to the world.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#53. Change is the essence of life; be willing to surrender what you are for what you could become.

Reinhold Niebuhr

#54. The deeper you surrender to existence, life, nature, the more loving, more understanding, more insightful you become.

Rajneesh

#55. We're all broken. We all have cracks. It's not about making it through life in one piece it's about narrowing the gap between the fissures so we don't shatter."
Ted Basel to Jo Nehr in my next "Surrender" story

Riley Murphy

#56. As soon as we surrender the principle that the state should not interfere in any questions touching on the individuals mode of life, we end by regulating and restricting the latter down to the smallest details.

Ludwig Von Mises

#57. She didn't mind the sacrifice. It seemed enough for a life, to give yourself to music the way nuns give themselves to God. To vow. To surrender. Only music, after all, made life bearable. Only with music did she feel--what was it? Free? Happy? No, it was something else. Awake.

Carolina De Robertis

#58. Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.

Franz Marc

#59. Like a feather in the air,Like a leaf in the sea,I surrender to thee,I surrender to thee.-RVM

R.v.m.

#60. I don't know what the exact shape of my life will take--and what the days to come will bring--except i know that i am happy and my heart is still. I know that I have fallen in love with the word surrender and know that I can no longer live in disappointment

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#61. I used to think the opposite of control was chaos. But it's not. The opposite of control is surrender.

Erin Loechner

#62. Resistance to sudden violence, for the preservation not only of my person, my limbs, and life, but of my property, is an indisputable right of nature which I have never surrendered to the public by the compact of society, and which perhaps, I could not surrender if I would.

John Adams

#63. Once trapped in the belief that you are a victim, you surrender your birthright to compete for the prizes of life.

James Cook

#64. RVM Thoughts for Today - Learn to surrender , because sometimes,when there is no way,surrender is the way.

R.v.m.

#65. Pagan philosophers set up reason as the sole guide of life, of wisdom and conduct; but Christian philosophy demands of us that we surrender our reason to the Holy Spirit; and this means that we no longer live for ourselves, but that Christ lives and reigns within us (Rom 12:1; Eph 4:23; Gal 2:20).

John Calvin

#66. If the life we live in this world is wholly for Christ, it is a life of daily surrender.

Ellen G. White

#67. If missions languish, it is because the whole life of godliness is feeble. The command to go everywhere and preach to everybody is not obeyed until the will is lost by self-surrender in the will of God. Living, praying, giving and going will always be found together.

Arthur Tappan Pierson

#68. What we really need is only a heart of surrender & always trust what God has plan for our life. So we do our best, God shall take the rest. That's what I called FAITH.

Olivia Sinaga

#69. I am a control freak, but not when I travel. For some reason when I travel, I am able to surrender more than in my real life. I am able to let go. I think it's why I like it so much.

Chelsea Cain

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

Anthony Liccione

#71. No defeat, no surrender

Ain't no pockets in a shroud

There is nothing so sure in life as death and taxes

Ninette Kelly

#72. It is always there for the person who will surrender his life to the Lord and keep on doing so when difficulties arise.

Norman Vincent Peale

#73. Fully to surrender to love can be terrifying. But it is the price life asks in exchange for the possibility of ecstasy.

Nathaniel Branden

#74. A thousand happy moments succumbed to history. It was the happiest hour of the year, worst time of our lives. I can still smell the ruins from that cold dark brute stormy October night.

Parul Wadhwa

#75. Life is very tough and fragile at the same time, it never backs down or surrenders, but will break open to reveal its beauty and ugliness. As a evening primrose that blooms in the flooding moonlight, just before being trampled upon underfoot by the four-legged frost of the night.

Anthony Liccione

#76. The healing that comes with self-acceptance rippled through my life. As I embraced my carefree nature, I began living from my truth, and watched as the pure expression of who I am and the love I bring to the world illuminated my life.

Shelley Lundquist

#77. Enthusiasm is not an emotional state. It is a spiritual commitment, a loving surrender to our creative process. Enthusiasm - from the Greek, filled with God - is an ongoing energy supply tapped into the flow of life itself.

Julia Cameron

#78. I just can't surrender. I can't start something and then surrender because of political reasons. I just don't do that, and that goes back to me, why I keep running when I should probably take it easy, even though I have no hobbies, and enjoy the rest of my life.

Joe Arpaio

#79. Love is total surrender, total acceptance and total commitment.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#80. From His eternal perspective, it's tolerable to allow our temporary dreams to fall apart.

Jennie Allen

#81. Surrender to life today. Don't fight anything. Just enjoy the flow.

Judith Orloff

#82. In it she told me, "Thanks a lot! I'm ruined - gloriously ruined." I nodded with sudden understanding. "that's it - that describes what has happened to me." I was ruined for life as I had known it before, but gloriously ruined!

Kay Warren

#83. 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

#84. If you surrender your life to God, you have joy of His presence.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#85. Brokenness is the shattering of my self-will - the absolute surrender of my will to the will of God. It is saying "Yes, Lord!" - no resistance, no chafing, no stubbornness - simply submitting myself to His direction and will in my life.

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#86. Life can become once more a grand adventure if we will surrender it to god. He brings one adventure to an end, only to open another to us. With him we must be ready for anything.

Paul Tournier

#87. The elixir of life, the philosopher's stone
is yours if you surrender
sterile logic, trivial reason.

Hilda Doolittle

#88. Never surrender...never give up! Keep walking down the roads of life that will lead you to your dreams and happiness

Timothy Pina

#89. You simply have to surrender to the present moment. Be alert. Watch something in a state of alertness. Always, continuously, bring that into everyday life, not spirituality here and getting on with your life there.

Eckhart Tolle

#90. 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

#91. Life gradually becomes a surrender to situations conditioned by technology.

Pope Francis

#92. 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

#93. 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

#94. 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

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

John C. Calhoun

#96. God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.

Bede Griffiths

#97. 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

#98. What I can do, I will do. What I can't do, I will surrender to the one that can.

E'yen A. Gardner

#99. To love God means to surrender, to trust, to be ready to die into Him, because dying in God is the beginning of a new life; it is resurrection. Love has to become such an intense flame that it bums you out, that you are not left behind, that you are consumed in it. If you are not, the Guest comes.

Rajneesh

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

Craig D. Lounsbrough