Surrender Quotes
969 quotes by 661 authors
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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Prayer frees us to be controlled by God. To pray is to change. There is no greater liberating force in the Christian life than prayer.…
— Richard J. Foster
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If you don't surrender to Christ, you surrender to chaos.
— E. Stanley Jones
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The EKC or Holy Spirit, can lift the most common beginning to the highest good. Yet to secceed, we must surrender our little self to…
— Harold Klemp
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Last of all will come self-surrender. Then we shall be able to give ourselves up to the Mother. If misery comes, welcome; if happiness comes,…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Fully to surrender to love can be terrifying. But it is the price life asks in exchange for the possibility of ecstasy.
— Nathaniel Branden
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Creativity can replace conformity as the primary mode of social being. . . . We can cling to that which is passing, or has already…
— Stephen Nachmanovitch
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We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.-Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that…
— Thomas Jefferson
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There's no dishonor in being forced by a superior power into slavery, but it is an eternal disgrace to voluntarily surrender one's liberty for a…
— Charley Reese
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You'll come back, because yours is an error of knowledge, not a moral failure, not an act of surrender to evil, but only the last…
— Ayn Rand
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The attack on "selfishness" is an attack on man's self-esteem; to surrender one, is to surrender the other.
— Ayn Rand
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God will not force himself upon us against our will. If we want his love, we need to believe in him. We need to make…
— Billy Graham
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He knows what He is doing with me. I cannot always understand His way, but I am content in the realization that He knows what…
— Daya Mata
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He is fairer than the morning star, and whiter than the moon. For his body I would give my soul, and for his love I…
— Oscar Wilde
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Surrender doesn't obstruct power; it enhances it.
— Marianne Williamson
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Being free brings a lightness, a carefree surrender to all that is happening around you, and, above all, an acceptance of reality.
— Deepak Chopra
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The great question of the seventies is, shall we surrender to our surroundings, or shall we make our peace with nature and begin to make…
— Richard M. Nixon
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To all who suffer- to all who feel discouraged, worried, or lonely- I say with love and deep concern for you, never give in. Never…
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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As the river surrenders itself to the ocean, what is inside me moves inside you.
— Kabir
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A person who is really saved by Grace does not need to be told that he is under solemn obligations to serve Christ. The new…
— Charles Spurgeon
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