Quotes About Surrender

It doesn't matter. What matters is that you're about to die.

Nothing can save something that is not meant to be, no matter how hard you try.

I'm open to whatever is meant to be, it will be.

If something is meant to be, then it will be.

So then put away, relentlessly away, all thought of the results. You cannot control them.

I'm not into revenge anymore, I just let go and let God.

Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.

When you have rubbish stuff coming your way, you have to let go.

I've totally sacrificed my ego. And what happens? God is giving me everything.

Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.

No war is over until the enemy says it's over.

The humiliation of the North is complete and overwhelming.

I've played many characters that have consumed me and owned me.

What you write on the page has nothing to do with when you're on set. When you're on set, it has nothing to do with when you're in the editing room. And when you're in the editing room, it has nothing to do with the final movie. You just have to let it go.

I tend to detach myself from movies once I'm done shooting them, because after that, it's in the hands of God. And it doesn't help if I panic.

You can't go into parenthood as a battle wearing armour. It doesn't work that way.

The reason why I'm in Parliament is not really to see my colleagues win power; it is to see us at last in a position where we can give it up.

Divinity in Its Transcendence, the Absolute before any Self-manifestation, cannot be contemplated, for contemplation implies a subject and an object, and the Absolute is beyond all duality, all "place" and all knowing. It is the Mystery, the utterly inscrutable secret in the deepest part of Being, veiled behind all the inmost veils, yet somehow luring and teasing the lover. And the lover waits outside the door, ready to surrender his life at a sign.

There has not yet been a major ground offensive battle... There are, we know, negotiations going on between the opposition forces and the Taliban leadership for surrender.

that absolute commitment to God involves a deep and sustained wrestling with God.

We are like an infant in the arms of God, unable to grasp but being transformed by the grasp.

In the logic of faith it is only by renouncing the wealth directly, saying, "I do not care about what I get from this sacrifice; all I want is you," that we discover the wealth indirectly.

No: what I have tried to remember, and occasionally achieved, is that sense of handing myself over to the moment I was in, trusting that what had brought me there would carry me through, allowing things to transpire not with effort, but with something like ease, even grace.

God never loses any part of our past for his future when we surrender ourselves to him. Every mistake, sin, and detour we take in the journey of life is taken by God and becomes his gift for a future of blessing.