The fearful person wilts and submits to what they call fate. The fearless negotiates with fate for a compromise.

One real danger in love relationships is that most people secretly believe that they must control the love object in order to feel safe in loving and being loved. The cause of this is simple—children...

You know, without a doubt, that surrender is the only option to fulfill whatever you are attempting.

It is easy to identify a shallow person by the attention he gives to what will do him absolutely no good.

Those who are truly enlightened, those whose souls are illuminated by love, have been able to overcome all of the inhibitions and preconceptions of their era. They have been able to sing, to laugh, and...

Act as though everything will be perfectly fine — because it will. Life has you and it’s not letting you go.

It can be a good thing if deeper theology, or philosophy, only makes one more uncertain. It may lead to a healthy doubt; he may throw his hands up saying, ‘God, I just don’t know...

No matter how much you stress or obsess about the past or future, you can’t change either one. In the present is where your power lies.

The ego hates losing – even to God.

The author tells a story wherein a missionary friend of his was invited by unbelievers on a train ride to play cards. The friend declined, saying that he did not bring his hands with him....

Fear of death is fear of surrender to Infinity. Learn to surrender, to exist at Infinity while alive, and fear of death dissolves. Fear of death is fear of the Unknown. Realize the Wonder, the...

Sacrifice demands the surrender of things we cherish above all else. Only out of the agony of those loses can a new resolution be born. An undying devotion to a cause greater than one’s self,...

Their raspy kisses brand our jam tart necks, their treacherous miasma clasps our herbal thighs. Motherlessly we surrender, too many fathers we have, we, your daughters of joy.

Surrender isn’t a one-time event but a moment-by-moment choice.

Evolve your understanding of success from the outer realm of control, materialism, and ego, to the inner realm of surrender, spirituality, and compassion.

Toa msamaha kwa waliokukosea kwa sababu dhambi zilizofanya mkosane zilitoka kwa Shetani.

We must surrender ourselves to God, not our assignments.

You will achieve what you want to achieve, only if you can cope with the theory of altruism.

I like the scientific spirit—the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine—it always keeps the way beyond open—always...

The truth only comes if you are willing to face some really unpleasant things about yourself.

That’s the thing about fear. It can only hang around until faith enters the room, then it’s forced to flee.

Subjugation requires vigilance; if you relax your brutality even for a moment, the people you’re oppressing will revolt at the first sign of weakness. That’s why dictatorial regimes are always a slippery slope of cruelty...

…to be lost is to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be capable of being in uncertainty and mystery. And one does not get lost but loses oneself, with the implication...

I am simply not enough in myself, but in Him I am. This surrender is not weakness, but the only true measure of strength any of us have.

If all of the steps of surrender are present, then a great Rembrandt or Monet will evoke love because the artist is simply there in all his naked humanity.

Growth comes from God, to those with surrendered, yielded hearts.

I find so many opportunities to fall, to falter, and fail when I refuse to surrender to change. Change will come into my room and rearrange my tidy world. Then like dominoes, one things changed...

My fear of being real, of being seen, paralyzes me into silence. I crave the touch and the connection, but I’m not always brave enough to open my hand and reach out. This is the...

Kafara ya maombi ni kushukuru wakati wa matatizo. Kushukuru kuna nguvu kuliko kuomba.

The Spirit filters through what I want and shows me who I am.

Writing is both an act of power and surrender. Passion and discovery. It is a tug at your soul that continues to pull you forward, even as you go kicking and screaming.” (p.18)

In order to pick something up, you’ve got to put something down.

Let it all go and enjoy the profound gifts found in your quiet places.

You are likely to lose the heat of your passion irrespective of how hot it was when you surrender yourself to a leader with lukewarm attitude.

When God requires us to surrender one dream, it’s because He wants to hand us a bigger and better one.

You will not mock me—and you will let me finish. I have owned and lost a kingdom, and I have battled death. I have been through all that, and I will not chase after you...

She had the hard, half-apathetic expression of one who deems anything possible at the hands of time and chance, except perhaps fair play

The more material we lose, the less we have. The less we have, the more we win.

Even a room, arranged in a certain manner, prevents certain things from taking place in it.

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our...

To abandon all is to take our hearts, place them before the One who created them, and dare to believe He can live life powerfully through our surrendered lives.

A single change can sometimes change your entire life

Don’t run from your pain — run into your pain.

What is given to you is what is needed; what you want, requires giving up what you don’t need.

I wonder if pain comes from surrendering or resisting?

Soon madness has worn you down. It’s easier to do what it says than argue. In this way, it takes over your mind. You no longer know where it ends and you begin. You believe...

Then, what’s the matter?’ I wonder, in fact, how many times I have said that or something equal to it to a woman passing palely through my life. What’re you thinking? What’s made you so...

All things are accomplished by the meditative act of releasing illusions and simply becoming.

From imperial, economic and ideological causes, many cultures are the inheritors, and hence the prisoners, of attitudes of scorn and disdain for other faiths – outlooks which are not ennobling to anyone.

To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you revisit it, analyze it, regret it, or sweat it…it’s over. It can hurt you...