All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
To be an American is to move on, as if we could outrun change. To attach oneself to place is to surrender to it, and suffer with it.
Coming unto the Lord is not a negotiation, but a surrender.
As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn't cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older.
Pol Pot will surrender, be captured or commit suicide.
Those who say in simple surrender 'Yes, Lord,' emerge from the experience spiritually rich, and become a source of grace and encouragement to others who are hurting.
When we surrender every area of our lives- including our finances-to God, then we are free to trust Him to meet our needs. But if we would rather hold tightly to those things that we possess, then we find ourselves in bondage to those very things.
Consecration thus constitutes the only unconditional surrender which is also a total victory!
Once we surrender our mind to God completely, He will take care of us in every way.
Jesus is no longer one to be accepted or invited in but one who is infinitely worthy of our immediate and total surrender.
For you to access your own innermost as awareness is for you to surrender form after form after form, enabling you as awareness to recede to what you first are, for you to be meaning.
As long as you perceive that anyone is holding you back, you have not taken full responsibility for your own liberation. Liberation means that you stand free of making demands on others and life to make you happy. When you discover yourself to be nothing but Freedom, you stop setting up conditions and requirements that need to be satisfied in order for you to be happy. It is in the absolute surrender of all conditions and requirements that Liberation is discovered to be who and what you are. Then the love and wisdom that flows out of you has a liberating effect on others.
Fully to surrender to love can be terrifying. But it is the price life asks in exchange for the possibility of ecstasy.
Surrender doesn't obstruct power; it enhances it.
Surrender is a state of living in the flow, trusting what is, and being open to serendipity and surprises.
There is so much temptation to hold on to my career even more now. To try to micromanage and dictate every little aspect. But that's not how I want to do things anymore. I'm thinking about how can I trust God more. How can I surrender more? How can I bring him more glory? It's a fight. But it's one I'm going to keep fighting.
At the very point of vulnerability is where the surrender takes place-that is where the god enters. The god comes through the wound.
If I'm gonna go down I'm gonna do it with style. You won't hear me surrender, you won't hear me confess cause you've left me with nothing but I have worked with less.
It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.
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