Quotes About Surrender

A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.

I like the scientific spirit—the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine—it always keeps the way beyond open—always gives life, thought, affection, the whole man, a chance to try over again after a mistake—after a wrong guess.

Fellowship with God is for those who want to live under His authority.

God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.

The last we saw of them was when they kissed, then beautifully naked walked as if into a sea of bright blue water --- leaving their bodies like old clothes upon the shore.

Solo puedo describir la experiencia de conversión como una sensación de «dejarse llevar», de renunciar a todo esfuerzo o incluso a mi deseo de tomar las riendas de mi propia vida. Aunque suene demasiado simple, esa decisión ha condicionado a partir de entonces cada uno de los momentos de mi vida. Solo puedo llamarlo una conversión.

I had continuously to learn to accept God's will—not as I wished it to be, not as it might have been, but as it actually was at the moment.

This tendency to set acceptable conditions upon God, to seek unconsciously to make his will for us coincide with our desires, is a very human trait.

it was easy to float freely and euphorically into the future, ready to accept whatever God might have prepared for me there. But the future was now the present, and as is always the case, it was a lot more unmanageable and full of bustle than it had seemed in the abstract. Accordingly, my new spirit of interior resolve to search out and understand and accept God's will in every detail of every situation was quickly put to a rude test by the rough and ready realities of life.

Striving instead to eliminate all self-will, to accept God's will revealed in the circumstances of daily life, is the surest way to achieve growth in conformity to the will of God.

En realidad, no es cuestión de confiar o no en Dios, porque de hecho deseamos confiar en Él: es cuestión de nuestra fe última en su existencia y en su providencia, y exige el acto de fe más puro.

Dios, que era todo en todo; no había más que una voluntad que lo gobernaba todo: la voluntad de Dios. Solo tenía que verla, descubrirla en cualquier circunstancia en la que me hallara, y dejarme guiar por ella.

La verdadera libertad no significaba otra cosa que dejar obrar a Dios en el alma sin poner obstáculos; poner por delante la voluntad de Dios tal y como se me revelaba a través de sus indicaciones, de sus inspiraciones y de otros medios de que se vale para comunicarlos; y no obrar por propia iniciativa. El mayor sentimiento de seguridad, ha procedido de la renuncia a mi libertad para cumplir únicamente la voluntad de Dios.

somehow I knew that I could do it. I knew that I must abandon myself entirely to the will of the Father and live from now on in this spirit of self-abandonment to God. And I did it. I can only describe the experience as a sense of "letting go," giving over totally my last effort or even any will to guide the reins of my own life. It is all too simply said, yet that one decision has affected every subsequent moment of my life. I have to call it a conversion.

Ultimately, we come to expect God to accept our understanding of what his will ought to be and to help us fulfill that, instead of learning to see and accept his will in the real situations in which he places us daily.

We are not saved by doing our own will, but the will of the Father; we do that not by interpreting it or reducing it to mean what we would like it to mean, but by accepting it in its fullness, as made manifest to us by the situations and circumstances and persons his providence sends us. It is so simple and yet so difficult.

We tend to concentrate on ourselves, we tend to think of what we can or cannot do, and we forget about God and his will and his providence.

No matter how close to God the soul felt, how blessed it was by an awareness of his presence on occasion, the realities of life were always at hand, always demanding recognition, always demanding acceptance. I had continuously to learn to accept God's will—not as I wished it to be, not as it might have been, but as it actually was at the moment. And it was through the struggle to do this that spiritual growth and a greater appreciation of his will took place.

Instead of filling in the blanks, I wanted to be blank and be filled in.

Stelle Dich an den Abrgund der Hölle Und tanze zur Musik der Sterne!

En el contexto civilizado, la estrategia de sumisión trae más problemas que ventajas. El sumiso desconoce sus derechos personales y, por lo tanto, no los defiende ni los ejerce. Se acurruca, se entrega, se agacha, pero a diferencia de lo que ocurre en el mundo animal, aquí el opositor no perdona: "Al caído, caerle".

Lo que define el apego no es tanto el deseo como la incapacidad de renunciar a él.

de lograr para cualquier persona, porque implica desprenderse de las expectativas y resignarse a que las cosas sigan su curso.

So when we look at any sacrificial action, any surrender of wealth we must first acknowledge that it is in fact wealth.