Quotes about Relinquishment

We can't take control, because control is not ours to take.

Surrendering to a Power greater than ourselves is how we become empowered.

Letting go is the action part of faith. It is a behavior that gives God and the Universe permission to send us what we're meant to have.

I need no longer always manage and muster support for my "cause."

As any Brit will understand, things get a little easier when you don't have to be number one any more. Really, the fall of an empire is not as bad as everyone thinks. It's like retirement. People fear retirement, but it can turn out be rather pleasant.

God takes away the world, that the heart may cleave more to Him in sincerity.

Submission is the willingness to give up our right to ourselves, to freely surrender our insistence on having our own way all the time.

The most liberating act of free, unconditional grace demands that the recipient give up control of his or her life.

If we hold tightly to anything given to us unwilling to allow it to be used as the Giver means it to be used we stunt the growth of the soul. What God gives us is not necessarily "ours" but only ours to offer back to him, ours to relinguish, ours to lose, ours to let go of, if we want to be our true selves. Many deaths must go into reaching our maturity in Christ, many letting goes.

Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we have learned here. The spiritual journey is the relinquishment—or unlearning—of fear and the acceptance of love back into our hearts. Love is the essential existential fact. It is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life.

In asking the Holy Spirit to help us, we are expressing our willingness to perceive a situation differently. We give up our own interpretations and opinions, and ask that they be replaced by His.

We can face whatever comes once we have relinquished our lives and the lives of our loved ones to Him. He is the God we can trust for strength each day. He is the One with all the love and understanding, who has a clear and eternal purpose for us.