Quotes About Surrender

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, I used everything you gave me Erma Bombeck as quoted in A Christmas Blessing

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, 'I used everything you gave me.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say... I used everything You gave me.

The self must be destroyed, brought down to nothing, in order for self-transcendence to begin. Then the self can begin to relate itself to powers beyond itself. It has to thrash around in its finitude, it has to die, in order to question that finitude, in order to see beyond it. To what? Kierkegaard answers: to infinitude, to absolute transcendence, the the Ultimate Power of Creation which made finite creatures.

But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.

God knows I had not wanted to fall in love with her. I had not wanted to fall in love with any one. But God knows I had and I lay on the bed in the room of the hospital in Milan and all sorts of things went through my head but I felt wonderful...

Bed is my friend. Just bed, he thought. Bed will be a great thing. It is easy when you are beaten, he thought.

It is in defeat that we become Christian.

he said it now in a complete embracing of all that would not be

No. Rien à faire. Rien. Faut pas penser. Faut accepter.

La vela [...], recogida, parecía el estandarte de una eterna derrota.

Kui kergeks küll muutub süda, kui tead, et kõik on läbi, kui tead, et oled võidetud.

It is only in defeat that we become Christian

God knows I had not wanted to fall in love with her. I had not wanted to fall in love with any one. But God knows I had.

We are all looking for, but we find what we are looking for only by being looked for. We find miracle only when we stop looking for magic.

Liegen, bei dir ich liege bei dir deine arme halten mich. deine arme halten mehr als ich bin. deine arme halten, was ich bin wenn ich bei dir liege und deine arme halten mich.

for those of us who embrace the cause of Christ, the cost to participate in the mission of God is nothing less than everything we are and everything we have.

When we sit under the pomegranate tree protecting the life we have, we risk relinquishing what God really wants for us—to seize our divine destiny.

Sometimes God allows us to go through tremendous disruption so that we might choose the path to freedom.

I want to live the kind of life that cannot be lived without the fullness of Christ in my life.

Se trata de tomar las decisiones difíciles de dejar atrás aquello que te robaría el futuro que Dios quiere para ti.

The warrior knows that peace does not come from control but from relinquishing control. Everything in life that you try to control that is outside your control will steal from you your peace. You must choose to take hold of what you can control and let go of what you cannot.