Quotes about Surrender
And there's also 'To him that hath shall be given.' After all, you must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can't give. Perhaps your own passion temporarily destroys the capacity.
— CS Lewis
The only love language is 'die to self.'
— Christine Caine
A person who is obsessed is characterized by committed, settled, passionate love for God, above and before every other thing and every other being.
— Francis Chan
God has made me desire always what he most wants to give me.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
What love commences can be finished by God alone.
— Victor Hugo
Love comes softly, it cannot be forced...cannot bear the weight of our expectations. Love always comes in the surrender - in the falling.
— Ann Voskamp
Perfect love of God means the complete union of our will with God's.
— Alphonsus Liguori
I would rather die and come to Jesus Christ than be king over the entire earth. Him I seek who died for us; Him I love who rose again because of us.
— Ignatius of Antioch
Alas, O Lord, to what a state dost Thou bring those who love Thee!
— Teresa of Avila
If you truly love God and His will, then doing what you will, will, in fact, be doing what God wills.
— Peter Kreeft
For me to love you, Jesus, as you love me, I would have to borrow your own love and then only would I be at rest.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
That's why the most stressed-out people are control freaks. They fail at the quest they most pursue. The more they try to control the world, the more they realize they cannot. Life becomes a cycle of anxiety, failure; anxiety, failure; anxiety, failure. We can't take control, because control is not ours to take.
— Max Lucado