Quotes About Surrender

I strongly advise you, witcher, that if the queen orders you to strip naked, paint your arse blue and hang yourself upside down in the entrance hall like a chandelier, you do it without surprise or hesitation.

And I strongly advise you, witcher, that if the queen orders you to strip naked, paint your arse blue and hang yourself upside down in the entrance hall like a chandelier, you do it without surprise or hesitation.

Darkness commands an inordinate amount of attention from a person who is unprepared and unprotected. Attention to darkness produces doubt. When a person is distracted and weakened by struggles, doubt whispers a message logically urging surrender; and soon, that person's focus is on his own discomfort, his fear and anger, regret and resentment.

If you decide that what God is asking you to do with your life is just too much on you and is just a little too inconvenient, then you will never see the miracles he has for you.

You can't give yourself fully to someone else as long as you are mastered by something else.

Once you've confessed to him that your root problem is that you're not getting your way and once you've completely thoroughly dumped your desires and anxiety on him you'll find it much easier to deal with the people in your life, regardless of whether they ever give you the recognition, love or credit you deserve, you'll find peace because you're no longer looking at these people to meet a need that only God can meet.

Do you think God can be trusted? Or do yo think you need to take things into your own hands?

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.

Your green eye is a reducing chamber. If I look into it long enough, I wil become as small as my own reflection, I will diminish to a point and vanish. I will be drawn down into that black whirlpool and be consumed by you. I shall become so small you can keep me in one of your osier cages and mock my loss of liberty.

She had given herself to the world in her entirety and then found nothing was left

He strips me of my last nakedness, that underskin of mauve, pearlized satin, like a skinned rabbit; then dresses me again in an embrace so lucid and encompassing it might be made of water. And shakes over me dead leaves as if into the stream I have become.

through every cloud God wants me to unlearn something. He wants me to simplify things, to put other things and other people aside until it is just me and Him. He doesn't want me to do anything more, He wants me to sit at His feet and listen to His voice. When once again He is the Father and I am the child, our relationship is restored.

We were all bought with a price, so we are all slaves to Yeshua. Each one should remain in whatever situation he was called, unless the Lord provides a legitimate escape.

We cannot know what others will do, but we must be willing to lay down our lives for Christ just as He laid down His life for us.

The widow seemed to consider everything, good and bad, as part of Adonai's will.

Trust in ADONAI with all your heart, lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.

No, no quiero… Pero soy una princesa. Y una princesa no debe tener en cuenta sus sentimientos. Una princesa se entrega, rendida, en manos de su rey. Soy una buena princesa, con sangre de siglos en las venas para obedecer y sonreír. A pesar de todo, lo he aprendido: una princesa no le da calabazas al emperador de Austria. Aunque le cueste la vida.

I want to let myself die and live in dreams.

When you fall in love, you have to play it out even if everyone calls you crazy. That's why they call it falling. We have no control over it.

I've been waiting for sleep to offer up the day with both hands.

I recognized the poem from Maulana Rumi and felt touched to the depths of my heart when I realized that Pari was committing both of us to God's care. "I will never abandon you. You are the star that I follow always." Pari's eyes misted. "Yes," she said softly, "you alone of all my servants have truly loved me." "With all my heart.

Between yourself & the beloved, between yourself & your joy, the riverbank swaying with wildflowers, the shaft of sunlight on the rock, the song. Will you pass through it now, will you let it consume whatever solidness this is you call your life, & send you out, a tremor of heat, a radiance, a changed flickering thing?

Let me love you, but don't love me back. Do love me and let me hate you for a while. Let me feel like I have some control, because I know I never do.

Let me love you, but don't love me back. Do love me and let me hate you for a while. Let me feel like I have some control, because I know I never do.