Quotes About Surrender

He seeks us before we dream of seeking him; he knocks before we invite him in; he loves us before we respond.

Mary!—we poor creatures of earth are stumbling over our freedoms, fumbling over our choices. Millions of us are seeking to give up their freedom—some by repudiating it, because of the burden of their guilt—some, by surrendering it to the moods and fashions of the time—others, by absorption into Communism, where there is only one will, which is the dictator's, and where the only love is hate and revolution!

I want to be ignorant of everything in the world — everything but You, dear Jesus. And then, by the strangest of strange paradoxes, I shall be wise!

Without Me you can do nothing"… nothing.

God accepts only what His Spirit inspires. We must bring back to God what He has given.

We give up our time, and get His eternity; we give up our sin, and receive His grace; we give up petty loves, and receive the Flame of Love.

But where the surrender is to God, we get ourselves back ennobled and enriched.

She nailed it to the wall with her well-aimed dart, like a butterfly with no will whose sentence has always been written.

Aureliano Secondo tornò nella casa coi suoi bauli, convinto che non soltanto Ursula, ma anche tutti gli abitanti di Macondo stavano aspettando che spiovesse per morire. Li aveva visti, passando, seduti nei salotti con lo sguardo assorto e le braccia incrociate, intenti a sentir trascorrere un tempo intero, un tempo non domato, perchè era inutile dividerlo in mesi e in anni, e i giorni in ore, se non si poteva far altro che contemplare la pioggia

Their bodies glided together in trembling harmony. Heated skin, rhythmic panting, slamming heartbeats. They made love as if their lives depended on it. Oh, God-Rohan! Yes, Kate, he whispered raggedly in smitten agreement. Oh... my... Surrender to me, he breathed against her lips.

I wished I could spend the rest of my life... being slightly crushed by someone who loved me.

You do not defend a world that is already lost.

Henry Kissinger spent years negotiating the terms of our surrender there and ended up with a deal that he could have gotten on the first day he went to work in the Nixon White House - the Americans leave and North Vietnam wins.

I believed God had wired me as a writer for a purpose, and I was squandering that purpose. I finally repented of doing things my way and told God that, in the future, I would only write books that glorified Him. That meant I had to buy back some of my contracts.

It was a lovely feeling, dying. I can remember being in the hospital, all wired up to tubes and thinking, 'If only you'd take these tubes out, it feels so nice.' It felt so - it felt like being in a bath of velvet. It was such a nice feeling. Everything felt so soft and floppy, and I wanted to go.

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

I've always felt that my career was in wiser hands than mine. Whatever, in its good time, is supposed to happen will happen.

The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us.

I wish I would have started MMA earlier, but it was out of my hands. It was in God's hands.

If things happen for the good, I say that Lord Krishna wished it so, and if anything goes against me, even then I say Lord Krishna wanted it to happen that way.

If you want to send a manuscript, send it to an agent. And send a letter first, asking permission. Launch it into the real world of cold-blooded commercial response, not into the fantasyland of wishful thinking, cowardice and surrender to Resistance.

When you stop searching, wanting and wishing things - only then they start appearing.

The Withdrawal Agreement - Theresa May's flagship policy, devised and drafted by Brussels, endorsed and supported by the entire Government machine - marks the surrender and capitulation of our country. If it were to become U.K. law, it would represent a national humiliation.

God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.