Surrender sayings

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◆ The reason why many are still troubled, still seeking, still making little forward progress is because they haven't yet come to the end of themselves. We're still trying to give orders, and interfering with God's work within us.

- A.W. Tozer99

◆ Reason lost the battle, and all I could do was surrender and accept I was in love.

- Paulo Coelho99

◆ You cannot fulfil God's purposes for your life while focusing on your own plans.

- Rick Warren99

◆ Something amazing happens when we surrender and just love. We melt into another world, a realm of power already within us. The world changes when we change. the world softens when we soften. The world loves us when we choose to love the world.

- Marianne Williamson99

◆ 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 own guidance.

- Henry Miller99

◆ One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.

- Elisabeth Elliot99

◆ Surrender is a powerful force.

- P.C. Cast99

◆ At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.

- Maya Angelou99

◆ God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.

- Bede Griffiths99

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

- George Alexiou99

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

- William Booth99

◆ Go home, and let all your relatives off the potter's wheel. You are not the potter!

- Joyce Meyer99

◆ Kev wasn't certain if he was surrendering to Win or to his own passion for her. Only that there was no more holding back. He would take her. And he would give her everything he had, every part of his soul, even the broken pieces.

- Lisa Kleypas99

◆ Surrender your own poverty and acknowledge your nothingness to the Lord. Whether you understand it or not, God loves you, is present in you, lives in you, dwells in you, calls you, saves you and offers you an understanding and compassion which are like nothing you have ever found in a book or heard in a sermon.

- Thomas Merton99

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

- Alain de Botton99