Quotes about Surrender

If any have more of the government of thee than Christ, or if thou hadst rather live after any other laws than his, if it were at thy choice, thou art not his disciple (331).

It is one thing to believe in God's power, it is quite another to live your life in obedient response to an all-powerful God.

To move from your way of thinking or acting to God's way of thinking or acting will require fundamental adjustments.

God seems to be about turning our loves around and using them toward the great love that is their true object.

Controlling people try to control people, and they do the same with God—but loving anything always means a certain giving up of control. You tend to create a God who is just like you—whereas it was supposed to be the other way around.

all mature spirituality, in one sense or another, is about letting go and unlearning.

There must be, and, if we are honest, there always will be at least one situation in our lives that we cannot fix, control, explain, change, or even understand. For Jesus and for his followers, the crucifixion became the dramatic symbol of that necessary and absurd stumbling stone.

We suffer to get well. We surrender to win. We die to live. We give it away to keep it.

Remember finally, that the ashes on your forehead are created from the burnt palms of last Palm Sunday. New beginnings invariably come from old false things that are allowed to die.

The bottom line of the Gospel is that most of us have to hit some kind of bottom before we even start the real spiritual journey.

All we can give back and all God wants from any of us is to humbly and proudly return the product that we have been given—which is ourselves!

People who have been initiated broke through in what felt like breaking down.