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Quotes About Surrender

There is ever the prior question of plain duty, with which nothing else, however tempting or promising of success, can come into conflict; and such seasons may be only those when our faith and patience are put on trial, so as to bring it clearly before us, whether or not, quite irrespective of all else, we are content to leave everything in the hands of God.
~ Alfred Edersheim
I could not comprehend God's plan but my understanding was not essential. My obedience was.
~ Alice Gray
If we had paid attention, we would have understood there are some things in this world you cannot outrun.
~ Alice Hoffman
But what we are given is taken as well, so that we know God's glory comes to us from His will alone.
~ Alice Hoffman
Certain things need not be said, and there's nothing, not a whisper, prayer, not a sacrifice, not a payment of any price, that would change what's about to happen.
~ Alice Hoffman
What is meant to be is bound to happen, whether or not you approve.
~ Alice Hoffman
You feel your heart and bones and blood. You wait for him like a bird in a cage.
~ Alice Hoffman
Love like this wasn't what he'd planned or wanted or expected, surely it was indeed a trap, for even when you tried to run away, it followed you through the grass and lay down beside you, it overtook common sense and willpower.
~ Alice Hoffman
In the last few months, she'd had a lot of time to consider the state of mankind, and she'd decided that people actually had very few choices in their lives. Most things happened to you. Most things rolled right over you and then kept on going.
~ Alice Hoffman
love is like a train that will keep going at full speed whether you like it or not, so you may as well enjoy the ride. If you try to avoid it, you'll just make everything worse. What's meant to happen will.
~ Alice Hoffman
he wants to be completely in control. In a way, it's a relief. ...[she] doesn't have to think when she's with him, or make a decision, or state a preference.
~ Alice Hoffman
Love is not always under our control
~ Alice Hoffman
Go," Jet told Franny. "What's meant to happen will.
~ Alice Hoffman
for things without remedy must be without regard.
~ Alice Hoffman
You can't change what's meant to be
~ Alice Hoffman
What if people really did that - sent their love through the mail to get rid of it? What would it be that they sent? A box of chocolates with centers like the yolks of turkey eggs. A mud doll with hollow eye sockets. A heap of roses slightly more fragrant than rotten. A package wrapped in bloody newspaper that nobody would want to open.
~ Alice Munro
What if people really did that--sent their love through the mail to get rid of it? What would it be that they sent? A box of chocolates with centers like the yolks of turkeys' eggs. A mud doll with hollow eye sockets. A heap of roses slightly more fragrant than rotten. A package wrapped in bloody newspaper that nobody would want to open.)
~ Alice Munro
?ã tá»›i tình tr?ng trước Ä'ây chưa t?ng có. Buông trôi theo dòng. Cho Ä'i. Má»™t s? ng??i cho Ä'i, má»™t s? ng??i không. Rào c?n gi?a cái bên trong và bên ngoài c?a tâm trí b?n b? ??p ??. Sá»± chân thá»±c Ä'òi h?i Ä'i?u ?y.
~ Alice Munro
Then a little voice in him said, Let go, let go, let go
~ Alice Sebold
You're dead and you have to accept it.
~ Alice Sebold
You can be free. Simply put, you have to give up on Earth.
~ Alice Sebold
I've learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.
~ Alice Walker
Some realities drive us to our knees and since I was there already before my altar I unwrapped and lit the beeswax candles I acquired for you.
~ Alice Walker
Physically I was so low that I knew that if I didn't stop I would soon be dead, yet mentally I was so dependent on my 'crutch' that I was prepared to die rather than stop.
~ Allen Carr