Quotes About Surrender

I had to quit every favorite food of mine.

When your body quits on you, it doesn't matter how mentally tough you are.

I must consider myself as the man of the cross and love the one that God gives me without thinking any further.

Writing a film is like giving birth to a baby and then giving it up for adoption.

You're always trying to feel confident and to feel good about yourself, but what it comes down to is really giving up to someone else. Having faith.

God can take anything we have, as long as we give Him the glory for it. He can develop it and make it acceptable in music for the people.

If we constantly give God the glory, then we don't have any glory to keep for ourselves.

Leave the rest to the gods.

We are the playthings of the gods.

You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.

I'm not in control of my fate, and that's a good thing.

Surrender. That's an interesting term. We tend to see all forms of surrender as negative--war, sports, highway on-ramps. You'd never hear us describing a relationship as a type of surrender. But maybe we should. Is it wrong to cede the solo to the duet. Surrender doesn't mean you lose, only that you no longer wish to fight.

Thank You for letting me live for a little as one of the sane; thank You for letting me know what this is like. Thank You for letting me look at your frightening blue sky without fear, and your terrible world without terror, and your loveless psychotic and hopelessly lost with this love

Believing in him is not the same as believing things about him such as that he was born of a virgin and raised Lazarus from the dead. Instead, it is a matter of giving our hearts to him, of come hell or high water putting our money on him, the way a child believes in a mother or a father, the way a mother or a father believes in a child.

Remember that the lives of other people are not your business. They are their business. They are God's business because they all have God whether they use the word God or not. Even your own life is not your business. It also is God's business. Leave it to God.

I had reached the point, at which I was not afraid to die. This spirit made me a Freeman in fact, while I remained a slave in form,

Amor Fati – "Love Your Fate", which is in fact your life.

Psychology has falsified love as surrender and altruism, while it is an appropriation or a bestowal following from a super-abundance of personality. Only the most complete persons can love. The depersonalized and objective are the worst lovers.

I love him whose soul is so overfull that he forgets himself, and all things are in him: thus all things become his going under.

aku telah melakukannya--kata ingatanku. aku tidak mungkin telah melakukannya--kata kesombonganku dan tetap tidak tergoyahkan. akhirnya--ingatanku menyerah

Lo! I am weary of my wisdom, like the bee that hath gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to take it.

Many married women who have deliberately spurned the hour of childbearing are unhappy and frustrated. They never discovered the joys of marriage because they refused to surrender to the obligation of their state. In saving themselves, they lost themselves!

Socialism increases in direct ratio and proportion with the surrender of personal responsibility to neighbor.

a love without satiety an ecstasy without an end, a surrender to the beloved— God—without ever falling back on egotistic loneliness. Marriage and celibacy are not contraries