It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?
This it is that gives a majesty so pure and touching to the historic figure of Christ; self-abandonment to God, uttermost surrender, without reserve or stipulation, to the guidance of the Holy Spirit from the Soul of souls; pause in no darkness; hesitation in no perplexity, recoil in no extremity of anguish, but a gentle unfaltering hold of the invisible Hand, of the Only Holy and All Good--these are the features that have made Jesus of Nazareth the dearest and most sacred image to the heart of so many ages.
As an improvising musician, I am not in the music business, I am not in the creativity business; I am in the surrender business.
Nothing in the world is as fearsome as a bloody, battered opponent who will never surrender.
Sometimes it seemed that the human heart, this side of Eden, feared life more than death, light more than darkness, freedom more than surrender.
Love includes vulnerability, surrender, self-valuing, steadiness, and a willingness to face - rather than run from - the worst of ourselves.
Every time you and I bow our heads in surrender to the will of God, we embrace the cross and we manifest to the world the heart of Christ who bowed His head to the will of His Father.
The essence of surrender is getting out of God's way so that He can do in us what He also wants to do through us.
What is the worth of anything we do? The worth is in the act. Your worth halts when you surrender the will to change and experience life
I would rather die a thousand deaths than surrender.
Surrendering is not a weakness. At the contrary it is strength. The surrender stops living in boiling water and starts living in a secure place.
. . . what will not the heart endure ere it will voluntarily surrender the hoarded treasure of its love to the cold dictates of reason or the stern voice of duty!
Surrender your expectations. Surrender your doubts. Surrender your fears. Surrender your strengths. Surrender your anger. Surrender your control.
Surrender the dream and the truth will be revealed.
The art of surrender is the art of getting out of the way of your own growth.
You are only a prisoner when you surrender.
Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles; Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.
Surrender is learning to get out of the way of what wants to happen naturally.
When we surrender to His timing, He does mighty things in and for us, according to His will and His timing. God acts on behalf of those who wait for Him.
My life is on loan, like money borrowed from a bank. God is the lender, and He retains the right to call in the loan any time. Though I am responsible for taking care of it, I do not own this life; it is borrowed. Why should I fear its loss or the loss of anything else in this world when I must surrender it all anyway?