Surrender is a choice, it is never a calling.

The fact that God can bring character development and personal growth out of any situation is conditional on people’s willingness to submit to God’s will. God is sovereign over every life, but those who yield...

You cannot simply read the Quran,not if you take it seriously.You either have surrendered to it already or you fight it.It attacks tenaciously,directly,personally; it debates,criticizes,shames and challenges.From the outset it draws the line of battle,...

You have to surrender yourself to the experience.

Accepting our pain is a way to say we treasure the sacred gift of life — run to your pain.

There is nothing new under the sun but that of the Son. Man’s rebellion against God has always been because he would rather fall in pride than rise in humility.

Pray, and let God worry.

…and awakening, at that moment, to the thrilling prospect of complete surrender, not just of one’s lips but of one’s entire body to a lover’s mercy, we recognized that the gap between compassion and surrender...

Our problems will melt away if we surrender to God

The…act of surrender—or devotion, as the case may be—was, to him, a kind of lifeline for those who sought a quick answer and didn’t want to stick around long enough to see their doubt through...

It is easy to use the phrase ‘God’s will for my life’ as an excuse for inaction or even disobedience. … My hope is that instead of searching for ‘God’s will for my life’ each...

Don’t resist! Open the door when love comes knocking.

When we are unable to change an event that has already been written in the stars, we are always presented the opportunity to surrender to the heart and find a new pathway to peace. Understanding...

But when it joins with the force of the whirlpool it becomes powerful and unstoppable. You must be flexible like the water, feeling the flow of life, tapping into its current. This is the only...

I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.

Now we cannot…discover our failure to keep God’s law except by trying our very hardest (and then failing). Unless we really try, whatever we say there will always be at the back of our minds...

Acceptance. It sounds so gentle; you foolishly imagine you might try it. As if you could choose. You don’t choose. You plummet into acceptance, because the floor has collapsed beneath your feet.

I sometimes wonder whether the act of surrender is not one of the greatest of all – the highest. It is one of the [most] difficult of all… You see it’s so immensely complicated. It...

When we embrace the opposites within ourselves and understand that inner harmony arises when they mature, we find the love, joy, silence and freedom that are hidden in every moment. It is my experience that...

Submit to your pain; don’t suppress your pain.

The petty man wants to use God for himself; the ambitious man wants God to use him for God.

Love or hatred calls for self-surrender. He cuts a fine figure, the warm-blooded, prosperous man, solidly entrenched in his well-being, who one fine day surrenders all to love—or to hatred; himself, his house, his land,...

You need to trustTo surrenderTo ask for guidanceGo within for the answersThey’re within youYou have the answersAll you need do is ask

The word surrender has some shadowy connotations. We think it’s weak to surrender, but sometimes it’s the bravest thing we can possibly do. It means to give our will over to another . . ....

The master tools of success are invitation, patience, time, gentleness, cooperation and surrender.

We are at our most powerful the moment we no longer need to be powerful.

You’ll be ready for this change – when you’re ready – not a moment before. Don’t beat yourself up if you’re not ready.

The spiritual freedom we seek cannot be found by grasping at, retreating to, or protecting our perceived safe spaces. Our freedom lies in remaining open continuously, not only to Life’s changes but also to the...

Often times, the greatest peace comes of surrender.

It all starts with you, and that which never starts, also finishes with you.

You shall find it greatly mitigates the sorrow of bereavements, if before bereavement you shall have learned to surrender every day all the things which are dearest to you into the keeping of your gracious...

A surrendered day is a good day.

Surrender had played out for good with me.

I remember sitting and meditating beside a slow flowing river in India, and I got the feeling that this river could teach me all the secrets of the mystery of life. If we learn to...

Let the world kiss you, sister. Let the moment kiss the most raw and tender spot in your heart until you cannot help but surrender, open.

It often seems as though the silent, humble servant is secretly wiser and more discerning than the haughty master; yet through dutiful (and sometimes insecure) surrender he continues to serve and carry out petty orders...

Allow yourself to let go, surrender, and breathe in the beautiful world that is waiting for you just outside of your comfort zone.

We rise up And we fall downOnly to rise again

Your wisest moments will be those when you say yes to God.

Dare not surrender to weakness you divine creation!

Miracles can only inhabit the reality of our awareness when we surrender our need for the familiar to our desire for the limitless.

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

A man’s only got so many yeses inside him before he uses them all up.

so that it pleases you. Make me one with you and also this land. Be with me.

Eucharisteo, remembering with thanks, this is the bread. We take the moments as bread and give thanks and the thanks itself becomes bread. The thanks itself nourishes. Thanks feeds our trust…Manna with thanks, eat the...

And here we see again that we do not decide our own lives. Dieneke, even if we won’t see each other again on earth, we will never be sorry for what we did, that we...

Our peace comes from remembering our wholeness and that the end of desire is the beginning of a life filled with Light.

… the kiss, the bodily surrender which would seem natural and but moderately attractive…

The greatness of the man’s power is the measure of his surrender.

Don’t despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don’t – surrender to events with hope.