Quotes About Surrender

I had to learn to praise Him regardless of what my emotions felt like doing. I had to learn to praise him even if my body did not want to.

It is now clear that we have hung on to too much for too long.

La adoración no se puede calcular ni producir.

The odd thing, my dear," said her father, "is that once one has ceased trying to protect self, one finds one's self in a very comfortable position." "Where?" asked Kale "In Wulder's care.

He didn't know what to do with the immediate future or what to do with long-range future. These questions should be fairly easy to address. Follow God's direction, plain and simple.

Interesting things happen when we give up struggling with a situation or problem outside of our control.

Yoga is thus not something we can make happen but something that happens to us. But it does not happen by accident.

I bow my head submissively and see that my chest is heaving, already dotted with the telltale flush of sexual arousal.

When she went limp in his arms, her surrender calmed him a bit. He kissed her more softly then, but still desperately.

My life in the New Age is a testimony to the disasters that occur when you follow your own will instead of God's will.

That's how it is sometimes-- God comes to your window, all bright light and black wings, and you're just too tired to open it.

Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)

God meant for things to be much easier than we have made them

I would give you my soul in a blackberry pie; and a knife to cut it with.

to every life there eventually came a moment when one had to accept the fact that the shape, the pattern, the direction of the future was entirely out of one's hands, to be decided unalterably by chance, by fate or by God.

Se ouviram, sabem que só me resta fazer uma coisa: deitar-me aqui à beira-mar, na minha praia coberta de pétalas de rosa e entregar-me ao meu sono interminável.

We bottom in order to go to places within ourselves and with our partners that we cannot get to without a top. To explore these spaces, we need someone to push us over the edge in the right ways, and to keep us safe while we're out there flying.

There is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad. You might just as well give in and save your sanity for later.

Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?

A woman's passion is nothing less than the sea that tosses a man's ship, and to weather the storm he must use skill and humility to ride her waves, having given up his own course and dragged down his sails, letting the sea take him where it will. For a sailor who knows that there is nothing to fear, this is the greatest adventure of life, as he lashes himself to the mast, knowing that his surrender is his strength and the chance for his redemption.

Death is a gift, so long as it is nature's hand.

We've come up with a lot of strange ideas about what we will do in heaven when we first see Jesus. Some people think they will shake his hand or give him a hug. Some people have questions they want to ask. I think we will do what John did — fall down in awe and wonder and love at Jesus' feet.

My secret is that I need God—that I am sick and can no longer make it alone. I need God to help me give, because I no longer seem to be capable of giving; to help me be kind, as I no longer seem capable of kindness; to help me love, as I seem beyond being able to love.

So Jim is right, then," said Kelly. "You aren't really caretakers at all. You just let happen what is destined to happen.