Quotes About Surrender

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

When Sauk leader Black Hawk led his people back from a winter stay in Iowa to their homeland in Illinois in 1832 to plant corn, the squatter settlers there claimed they were being invaded, bringing in both Illinois militia and federal troops. The Black Hawk War that is narrated in history texts was no more than a slaughter of Sauk farmers. The Sauks tried to defend themselves but were starving when Black Hawk surrendered under a white flag.

To be broken means to have no rights before God and man. It does not mean merely surrendering my rights to Him but rather recognising that I haven't any, except to deserve hell. It means just being nothing and having nothing that I call my own, neither time, money, possessions nor position.

The Lord Jesus cannot live in us fully and reveal Himself through us until the proud self within us is broken. This

Il ne saurait remplir des coupes impures. Tout ce qui provient du moi, si infime que cela soit, est péché :

Galatians 5), with which God longs to fill us, are the complete antithesis of the hard, unbroken spirit within us and presupposes that it has been crucified. Being broken

I gave up on ever trying to get 'my way.' I barely knew it existed.

We prayed until our faith passed into an exhaustion that numbed us to sleep.

Body and spirit, I surrendered whole, To harsh Instructors- and received a soul.

I can't,' but it was acceptance now. 'I can't,' whispered Dame Catherine, 'so You must.

Now you gird yourself and take yourself where you want to go … but one day another will gird you and take you where you do not want to go.

And you needn't worry about being useful,' said Dame Ursula. 'When you have become God's in the measure He wants, He, Himself, will know how to bestow you on others.' She was quoting St Basil. Then her face grew wistful, '"Unless He prefer, for thy greater advantage, to keep thee all to himself." That does happen to a few people. Yet, paradoxically, they have the greatest influence.

I am only the waves and particles of such as I was but I have a covenant with the Lord, the terms of it are simple: everything is required of me, for ever.

Faith is that movement whereby we accept God's nearness, and his nearness must always mean the death of the ego.

But the other face of British rule now showed itself naked and clear: political expediency in its most treacherous form; betrayal of the promise and the hope; surrender to the Arabs for their petroleum favors.

It's not only true that my life is Christ's, but my life is Christ.

But maybe that was the trick—to accept the responsibility and forgo the control? To love without expectation?

it wouldn't matter if I bumped and bounced like a cabbage all the way down until I hit bottom and then rolled out to sea, because at least I'd be safe and dead.

I should only make myself ridiculous in my own eyes if I clung to life and hugged it when it has no more to offer.

Maketa," I said, throwing myself down in the sand. "I lost. The ocean won." She smiled. "Was it a good feeling?" "Mm," I said. "That's good," she said. "Have another rice ball?

But maybe that was the trick—to accept the responsibility and forgo the control? To love without expectation? A paradox for sure, but such a relief.

all you can really do is place yourself in its hands and try to consider the passing of each day a victory.

Whiteness is often associated with finality, with the end, with death. In those cultures in which people live with the fear of death, mourners dress in black, to scare death away from themselves, isolate it, confine it to the deceased. But here, where death is regarded as another form, another shape of existence, mourners dress in white and dress the deceased in white: whiteness is here the color of acceptance, consent, of a surrender to fate.

to have faith is precisely to lose one's mind so as to win God.