Quotes About Surrender

Why couldn't she just let herself go?

Full and aching and tingling and spiraling, hanging on for dear life, letting go of every other thought and focused only on one thing—let it go, let it go, let it go.

Why aren't you on the pill?" "Hmm. Because I gave up men…." He chuckled, low in his throat. "How's that working out for you….?" "I was fine until you. You've messed up a lot of my plans." "You played hell on mine, too," he groaned, lifting her T-shirt over her head, tossing it and steering her toward the bed.

And the thing about trying to cheat death is that, in the end, you still lose.

Thinking about it like that made it more bearable, that we go back to God when we've had our turn, that some of us roll the dice less than we'd like, but that we're the ones who are rolling them.

Nineteen Eighty-Four is not the novel that previews what's coming; it's rather Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. The contemporary social critic James Poulos calls this the "Pink Police State": an informal arrangement in which people will surrender political rights in exchange for guarantees of personal pleasure.

We are being conditioned to surrender privacy and political liberties for the sake of comfort, convenience, and an artificially imposed social harmony.

In the end, either Christ is at the center of our lives, or the Self and all its idolatries are.

No regime is trying to steal our cultural memory and Christian identity from us. We are giving it away ourselves.

That is the basis of ketman—and to surrender to that kind of self-defense will, over time, destroy your soul.

Fall down with me, for now.

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much." Mother Teresa

The Turkish commanders agreed to surrender in return for a guarantee of safety, signed by Alexios himself

I'm thinking maybe letting the latches burn is the right idea. Let everything burn until there's nothing left but ashes and cool rain.

And let's not forget "Dane-Geld": It is always a temptation to a rich and lazy nation, To puff and look important and to say: "Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you. We will therefore pay you cash to go away." And that is called paying the Dane-geld; But we've proved it again and again, That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld You never get rid of the Dane.

Here have I come to die,' he said, 'and where else could I ask to die but in your arms?

I know, too, that death is the only god who comes when you call.

To let go is not to be protective. It's to permit another to face reality.

To let go is not to be in the middle arranging the outcome, but to allow others to affect their own destinies. To let go is not to be protective. It's to permit another to face reality.

To let go is to fear less and love myself more.

At long last I came to the breakthrough point, the surrender. I realized that her life, and my fury, were truly over. She was gone, and if I really loved her, I owed it to her to ensure that her passing would bear spiritual fruit in my life. For that to happen, I would have to let go. The relief was profound. There was nothing left to do.

Oftentimes when we need yoga the most, we want it the least.

Jesus doesn't rob you of being YOU. You don't somehow become less than yourself because Jesus' presence is larger in you. It's just the opposite; the more you surrender to Him, the more you become who the Father always intended you to be.

cette façon que vous avez de vouloir renoncer plutôt que de perdre.