Quotes about Surrender
To the ego mind, surrender means giving up. To the spiritual mind, surrender means giving in and receiving.
— Marianne Williamson
We truly need Him every hour, whether they be hours of sunshine or of rain.
— Thomas Monson
As a rule, prayer is answered and funds come in, but if we are kept waiting, the spiritual blessing that is the outcome is far more precious than exemption from the trial.
— Hudson Taylor
My spiritual goal is to one day walk into God and disappear.
— Thomas Merton
That's the whole spiritual life. It's learning how to die. And as you learn how to die, you start losing all your illusions, and you start being capable now of true intimacy and love.
— Eugene Peterson
Don't try to steer the river.
— Deepak Chopra
Choosing joy involves spiritual surrender, and sometimes we would rather hold on to the pain than surrender our egos.
— Marianne Williamson
A spiritual Christian should welcome any burden which the Lord brings his way.
— Watchman Nee
A man is his tallest when he is down on his knees in prayer.
— Beth Moore
People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it
— Edith Schaeffer
All our actions must be directed, in the last analysis, to making ourselves passive in relation to the activity and the being of divine Reality. We are, as it were, aeolian harps, endowed with the power either to expose themselves to the wind of the Spirit or to shut themselves away from it.
— Aldous Huxley
A dervish was tempted by the devil to cease calling upon Allah, on the ground that Allah never answered, "Here am I." The Prophet Khadir appeared to him in a vision with a message from God.) Was it not I who summoned thee to my service? Was it not I who made thee busy with my name? Thy calling "Allah!"was my "Here am I." Jalal-uddin Rumi
— Aldous Huxley