Quotes About Surrender

My heart aches for her. I am, myself, no stranger to this waiting, the charged and terrible uncertainty that follows the surrender to passion—this dangling in limbo, waiting, waiting for a man to call.

Love: the impossible combination of being IN the deep end and being OFF the deep end.

It is not your responsibility to explain what God is doing with your life. He has not provided enough information to figure it out. Instead, you are asked to turn loose and let God be God. Therein lies the secret to the "peace that transcends understanding.

I prayed a one-line prayer simply because my Christian labor had failed me and I had no idea what else to do (and I strongly advise against this prayer unless you are quite ready for God to take you seriously and wreck your life): "God, raise up in me a holy passion.

For the first time in our lives, we weren't trying to create our own opportunities; we were simply trying to respond to the Spirit's leading.

Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance, but laying hold of God's willingness.

I am carried off. We yield to this slow flood.... In and out, we are swept; ...we can not step outside its sinuous, its hesitating, its abrupt, its perfectly encircling walls.

Life does not always gives us the choices that we want

She made one instinctive effort to resist and then yielded, slipping down on to the floor. Not a single word was exchanged. The act was silent and brutal

Yes! live life with every fibre of one's being, surrender oneself to it, with no thoughts of rebellion, without deluding oneself that one can improve it and render it painless; all this was revealed to the dying man, as the only courageous and wise attitude possible for a man of science.

Y a sabe que soy todo suyo - susurró, a modo de conclusión-. Haga conmigo lo que quiera.

Yo, desdichada criatura tuve que bajar finalmente mi bandera, tras una larga lucha hasta el oscurecer, con el abatimiento y la soledad.

I said his heaven would only be half alive, and he said mine would be drunk; I said I should fall asleep in his, and he said he could not breathe in mine.

Wild Nights—Wild Nights! Were I with thee Wild Nights should be Our luxury! Futile—the winds— To a heart in port— Done with the compass— Done with the chart! Rowing in Eden— Ah, the sea! Might I but moor— Tonight— In thee!

Grant me, O Lord, a sunny mind-Thy windy will to bear!

Beauty crowds me till I die, Beauty, mercy have on me! But if I expire today, Let it be in sight of thee

They're here, though; not a creature failed, No blossom stayed away In gentle deference to me, The Queen of Calvary.

Because I could not stop for death He kindly stopped for me

I do not expect to get what I want, so I don't. And I don't even try.

And then, with the feather-green darkness pressed against the windows, he puts his filthy fingers on my scrubbed hope face and says, If I kiss you, it's all over. And then he does. And then it is.

I don't suppose you would consider peaceful surrender?

Certain battles were won by retreating.

She cast her eyes toward the heavens. "Help," she cried. And it began to rain diamonds.

Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.