Quotes About Surrender

How quickly bodies came to love each other, promise themselves to each other always, without asking permission. From the mind! If only she could give up her mind, let her heart swell, inflamed, her brain stepping out for whole days, whole seasons, her work shrinking to limericks.

To spend your time thinking about what you can do to keep from disappointing him, or what might happen if you were to displease her, or how it might look if you did this, or how you might be rejected if you didn't do that, rather than simply thinking about how you can please God, is not only worry, but stupidity.

Well, as to that, all I'll say is, you can't take out a fellow's heart before he's ready to give it up.

Lord Jesus, Son of God,' he prayed. 'If you're not going to do anything, I will.

Tell me, son... have you ever been intimidated by anyone?' 'Oh yes,' said Thomas. 'I don't believe it. By whom?' 'By Our Lord... on the altar.

in order to have peace both sides must want it equally. One side cannot make peace; they can only surrender.

Seems if the Lord really wants a man it doesn't need all that fuss to get him worked up to it. If a man isn't ready for the Lord, then the Lord isn't ready for him, and it's a straight-forward proposition between man and God without any wringing of the hands or hell-fire shouting.

It is always easier to die, simply to give up, to surrender and let the pain die with you. To fight is to keep pain alive, even to intensify it. And this requires courage for which i had only admiration.

If you get bitten by a yellow-spotted lizard, you might as well go into the shade of the oak trees and lie in the hammock. There is nothing anyone can do to you anymore.

She fell into the moody, miserable state of mind which often comes when strong wills have to yield to the inevitable.

he felt he could willingly give his life for them.

she never had what she wanted till she had given up hoping for,' said Mrs. Meg.

Jo couldn't even lose her heart in a decorous manner, but sternly tried to quench her feelings, and failing to do so, led a somewhat agitated life. She was mortally afraid of being laughed at for surrendering, after her many and vehement declarations of independence.

I agree not to expect anything

I can't do it. I wasn't meant for a life like this, and I know I shall break away and do something desperate if somebody doesn't come and help me," she said to herself, when her first efforts failed and she fell into the moody, miserable state of mind which often comes when strong wills have to yield to the inevitable.

she won't wish us to give up everything.

I'll let my castle go

Jo couldn't even lose her heart in a decorous manner, but sternly tried to quench her feelings; and, failing to do so, led a somewhat agitated life. She was mortally afraid of being laughed at for surrendering

Hamilton now believed that his great opportunities lay behind him. On December 1, 1794, the day he returned to Philadelphia, he told Washington that he would surrender his Treasury post in late January.

There's somethin I learned when I was homeless: Our limitation is God's opportunity. When you get all the way to the end of your rope and there ain't nothin you can do, that's when God takes over. I remember one time I was hunkered down in the hobo jungle with some folks. We was talkin 'bout life, and this fella was talkin, said, 'People think they're in control, but they ain't. The truth is, that which must befall thee must befall thee. And that which must pass the by must pass thee by.

After a siege of 293 days, Grant forced the Confederates to abandon Petersburg and Richmond on the same day.

Os homens costumam chamar destino àquilo que lhes acontece quando perdem as forças para lutar.

Umut garip bir al??kanl?kt?r. Bir tür uyuÅŸturucudur. B?rakt???m?za dair yeminler ederiz, ama o da ne? Bir gün gelir, yine kölesi oluruz.

It is merely that I have been held in an embrace so strong by the journey that I find I have relinquished the will to arrive.