Quotes About Surrender

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

El inglés necesita de un verbo fatalista para emplear la expresión "enamorarse": to fall. O sea que el enamorado no exactamente asciende a un estado superior, sino al contrario: cae. Tropieza, se distrae, es entrampado. Cae, igual que Luzbel. Si Cristo hubiese dicho "Enamoraos los unos a los otros", ya estaríamos todos viviendo en el Infierno.

But in a world turned upside down, things I thought were mine and mine alone can be taken away much more easily than I would have imagined.

Unable to turn back the clock, they let themselves be turned.

If God doesn't want something for me, I shouldn't want it either. Spending time in meditative prayer, getting to know God, helps align my desires with God's.

Et puis, c'est la vie; elle ne nous prend que ce qu'elle nous a donné. Ni plus ni moins. (p.190)

Tous les matins, de plus en plus de gens viennent convoquer les divinités qu'ils ont eux-mêmes créées de toutes pièces entre une hallucination opiacée et une démence suicidaire.

Des choses incroyables vous tombent dessus, détournent le cours de votre existence et le bouleversent de fond en comble. Vous avez beau fuir au bout du monde, vous réfugier là où personne ne risque de vous trouver, elles vous suivent à la trace comme une meute de chiens errants et font de vous quelqu'un qui ne vous ressemble en rien et qui devient la seule histoire que l'on retiendra de vous. Certains appellent ces choses "mektoub".

Tu ferais quoi, Ach, si tu étais le bon Dieu? - J'suis pas le bon Dieu. - D'accord, mais admettons. Tu ferais quoi? - Que veux-tu que je fasse? - C'est pour ça que je te le demande. (...) - M'est avis qu'il a claqué la porte il y a des lustres. - C'est à dire? - Ben, il veut plus entendre parler de nos foutaises. (...) Forcément, il jette l'éponge.

If you need all the answers to trust God, you are not really trusting God.

Acknowledge. Accept. Let go.

We all need to let go—especially of our preoccupations with ourselves.

offer myself to Thee to build with me and do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will.

Patience often surrenders to time, and dreams go unfulfilled - act as if time is fleeting, as it is.

Don't hold on to anything too tightly sooner or later, you'll have to let go.

Don't keep fighting battles that are already lost.

Recently he has noticed idiocy creeping up on him. His resolve to keep his head on straight, his feet on the ground, is failing and he has observed, quite objectively, that he is becoming more thoughtless, selfish, making more and more stupid remarks. He has tried to do something about this but it almost feels out of his control now, like pattern baldness. Why not just give in and be an idiot? Stop caring.

O Lord, take full possession of my heart, raise there Your throne, and command there as You do in heaven. Being created by You, let me live for You; being created for You, let me always act for Your glory; being redeemed by You, let me give to You what is Yours; and let my spirit cling to You alone, for Your name's sake. Amen. —JOHN WESLEY (1703–1791)

To lose is to win.

It came down to so many factors: an underdog who refused to surrender, a presumed victor who refused to fight, disgruntled Democrats - on the left and right - who, by deserting their party, merely strengthened it, and fearful Republican farmers, who in the end, proved more farmer than Republican.

Letting go is like the sudden cessation of an inner pressure or the dropping of a weight. It is accompanied by a sudden feeling of relief and lightness, with an increased happiness and freedom. It is an actual mechanism of the mind, and everyone has experienced it on occasion.

To overcome blame, it is necessary to look at the secret satisfaction and enjoyment we get out of self-pity, resentment, anger, and self-excuses, and to begin to surrender all of these little payoffs.

By experience, we know what it is to plant our faces in the floor and plead for God to accomplish the work that our best efforts in preaching cannot.