Quotes About Surrender

I am trusting Thee, Lord Jesus, Trusting only Thee; Trusting Thee for full salvation, Great and free. I am trusting Thee for pardon; At Thy feet I bow; For Thy grace and tender mercy, Trusting now. I am trusting Thee to guide me; Thou alone shalt lead; Every day and hour supplying All my need.

Then I said, "Here am I! Send me." – Isaiah 6:8

As Major Ian Thomas put it, "All there is of God is available to the person who is available to all there is of God."1

The human race puzzles me, with striving for freedom, and then basically just giving it away.

Dobbiamo rinunciare a tutto, dunque?» Era serio, non sorrideva. «Non so neppure questo. Robert, in un certo senso ti appartengo. Non volevo che accadesse, non ne sentivo la necessità, e so che questo vale anche per te, ma è andata così. In realtà non sono seduta qui sull'erba, accanto a te. Mi hai dentro di te, come una prigioniera volontaria».

The individual then responds to the manipulations through developing what I shall call the psychology of the pawn. Feeling unable to escape from forces more powerful than any individual, one subordinates everything to adapting to them.

Keep vaunting head over heart, and soon the head will arrive at the complete folly of any kind of fight and meekly surrender the treasure to the first bandit with enough heart to demand it.

The hour has come to leave for the meeting place where I show him my face. He shall see the dark fire of my eyes and hear the wild wind in my voice. He will feel my presence full of stars, scanning his soul, and he shall know my raw power in his bones. I go to the meeting place where he will surrender to my fierce energy. The dancing, brooding passion goes in the cloak of night to where the human dares not go, but must. I am his destiny and his death, and he knows not my name.

They stopped briefly at an inn near the town of Altaussee, a tidy village tucked in the woods near a pristine alpine lake. Outside, trimly uniformed SS officers were offering their services to the liberators, who they were sure would soon be at war with the Soviets. No? Then the SS officers were happy to surrender, as long as they could keep their sidearms. They feared their own troops would shoot them in the back.

I think all men recognize that in time of war the citizen must surrender some rights for the common good which he is entitled to enjoy in time of peace. But, sir, the right to control their own government according to constitutional forms is not one of the rights that the citizens of this country are called upon to surrender in time of war.

for I knew that the King in Yellow had opened his tattered mantle and there was only God to cry to now.

God goes with thoughtless people.

Striving and surrender are not compatible. If you are overeager to achieve something, notice the force of your intention. Watch your faster breathing and feel your tenser muscles. This clear observing, this quality of attention, can take you to a state of relaxed awareness.

Under the stars we are as one. Theirs is the power of countless years. They see our grief and know our pain, yet still they shine and their light gives us hope. From acorn to oak, but even the mightiest of oaks shall fall. Thus do we recognize the great wheel of life and death and life once more. We surrender our departed souls under the stars and may the Green gather them to him.

At the end of oneself was the best place to discover the Lord at work.

He would have to trust God for that, for he was helpless to do anything about it himself. His grandfather had said that was always the best place to be. At the end of oneself was the best place to discover the Lord at work.

I realized that I needed God more than I needed rescuing. I needed to draw closer to Him in the storm more than I needed to be taken out of the storm.

I used to think I was content, but now I could see that my contentment was based upon how well I controlled the circumstances of my life, not upon my trust in a loving God.

This morning, in his sermon, Mikkel said we cannot halt for long between two opinions, that we must stop hesitating and step out for the Lord. He said as Christians we must choose to turn over our free will to the future God has in mind for us. If we remain stubborn, if we are afraid to step out for Him, then He will use

But it was equally clear to her that this was her fate, that she had called its name and it had come to her, and she could do nothing now but own it.

Slowly, painfully, I let go. It was like prying my own fingers off the edge of the cliff. And that hurt too-particularly the falling part, and not being sure what was at the bottom. But I did know. Now was what was at the bottom. I was already there.

It wasn't the work of the Chalice she minded. It was the vast unfathomable burden of its responsibility. She still felt the Chalice was incomprehensibly beyond her—even wished that it were incomprehensibly beyond her, so she could give up.

I will do anything it is in my power to do for you, he said. Command me. A vampire, standing on the far side of my bed, wearing my kimono, telling me he'd do anything I asked. Steady, Sunshine.

Cuando amamos demasiado, es porque tratamos de vencer los viejos miedos, frustraciones, enojos y dolores de la niñez, y darse por vencido es renunciar a una valiosísima oportunidad de encontrar alivio.