Surrender To God Quotes

• From Mary we learn to surrender to God's Will in all things. From Mary we learn to trust even when all hope seems gone. From Mary we learn to love Christ her Son and the Son of God!

  Pope John Paul II

  Son, Gone, Surrender

  Pope John Paul II, Margaret R. Bunson (1996). “John Paul II's Book of Mary”, p.181, Our Sunday Visitor Publishing

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• Every genuine expression of love grows out of a consistent and total surrender to God.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Expression, Surrender

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• When we surrender to God, we let go of our attachment to how things happen on the outside, and we become more concerned with what happens on the inside.

  Marianne Williamson

  Letting Go, Attachment, Surrender

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• Inhale, and God approaches you. Hold the inhalation, and God remains with you. Exhale, and you approach God. Hold the exhalation, and surrender to God.

  Tirumalai Krishnamacharya

  Success, God, Yoga

  "Stress Out: Show Stress Who's the Boss!". Book by Sumner M. Davenport (p.9), November 11, 2009.

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• Once we surrender our mind to God completely, He will take care of us in every way.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Mind, Care, Way

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Apr 02, 2017

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• In a real sense faith is total surrender to God .

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Faith, Real, Surrender

  "The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr". Book by Martin Luther King, Jr., p. 552, 2007.

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• Do not think that if you surrender to God you will be loser. You will not lose anything except bondage, frustration and suffering. That is all you will lose.

  Radhanath Swami

  Thinking, Frustration, Suffering

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• If you don't surrender to God, don't think you don't surrender. Everybody surrenders -- to something.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Thinking, Surrender, Ifs

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• The Christian, the Mohammedan, the Jew - their emphasis is on the second: to die as soon as possible, to surrender to God. Prayer is their way. Prayer means dying, dying and disappearing as a person, becoming part of the universal, a surrender, a trust in God. The whole emphasis is on how to surrender your ego, sacrifice your ego, at the altar of the divine.

  Rajneesh

  Christian, Prayer, Mean

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• We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

  Teresa of Avila

  Humility, Meditation, Surrender

  St. Teresa of Avila (2002). “Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila”, p.139, A&C Black

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• Spiritual Work is not easy. It means the willingness to surrender feelings that seem, while we're in them, like our defense against a greater pain. It means that we surrender to God our perceptions of all things.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Pain, Mean

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage”, p.59, Random House

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• The full acting out of the self's surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from the pure will to obey, in the absence, or in the teeth, of inclination

  C. S. Lewis

  Pain, Self, Perfect

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• We try to bargain with God...I will follow you but don't touch my children, or my husband, don't give me cancer...We are afraid our surrender to God will unleash evil. But evil will come, because evil will come. We live in a broken world.

  Kay Warren

  Children, Husband, Cancer

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• Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds

  Paul the Apostle

  Bible, Submission To God, Priorities In Life

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• Celibacy is a great help, inasmuch as it enables one to lead a life of full surrender to God.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Helping, Celibacy

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.67, Courier Corporation

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• Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee.

  Edward de Bono

  Bible, Submission To God, Temptation

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• The word 'Islam' means 'peace.' The word 'Muslim' means 'one who surrenders to God.' But the press makes us seem like haters.

  Muhammad Ali

  Mean, Islam, Surrender

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. June 2001.

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• Engaging the city around us and ministering to its needs reveal to us the remaining bastions of sin in our lives, the areas we refuse to surrender to God.

  Matt Chandler

  Cities, Needs, Sin

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