Quotes About Surrender

You're right about something else," he said, his voice ragged. "I'm scared to death of you. Because I want you, when common sense and a lifetime of experience tells me I should kill you. I want you, and if I give up then you'll own me, and I'll have nothing left to fight with.

She reached behind her to unfasten her bra, then stopped. "Do you need me to take all my clothes off, or just from the waist down?" "This isn't a visit to the gynecologist, Rachel. Everything must go." His voice was lightly mocking.

Cosa vuoi che ti faccia? Vuoi che ti prenda mentre dormi? Vuoi che ti faccia venire mentre tu fingi che nemmeno esisto? Vuoi entrare nel mio letto e lasciare che ti mostri cose che non hai mai nemmeno sognato? Si, no.. Quale di queste? Sii coraggiosa. Devi solo dirmelo. farò quello che vuoi Forse non sono tanto coraggiosa, dopotutto. il coraggio è avere paura e continuare lo stesso.

I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you. Then even death, where you're going no matter how you live, cannot you part.

I know only enough of God to want to worship him, by any means ready to hand.

Oh, the sweetness of giving in, of full surrender.

People think you always have to go for life, but you don't. You can quit.

we give up our freedoms and responsibilities in exchange for the certainty that comes from being told what to do

Like scared civilians eager to do whatever a despot tells them, we give up our freedoms and responsibilities in exchange for the certainty that comes from being told what to do.

The time we spend worrying is actually time we're spending trying to control something that is out of our control.

Tapi apa yang ditetapkan Tuhan tentunya lebih baik daripada yang bisa diberikan atau yang terpikir oleh manusia.

She did what she could for him. She kissed him in return. She lost her breath and both her hearts, and finally Turned to smoke and back.

Sometimes you just gotta accept that hope is gone.

In those moments when we realize how much we cannot control, we can learn to let go.

To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.

Letting go—abandoning, relinquishing—is actually the same mind state as generosity. So the practice of giving deeply influences the feeling tone of our meditation practice, and vice versa.

Loving ourselves calls us to give up the illusion that we can control everything and focuses us on building our inner resource of resilience.

Our world opens up because we can let go. We can relinquish, and we are not afraid. We do not have to hold on.

Letting go is actually a healthy foundation upon which we can open up to real love—to giving, receiving, and experiencing it authentically and organically.

The disobedient are prospering now only in a very limited earthly economy. God, however, calls us to live in a much higher economy—that of heaven.

Sometimes God will take you to a prison to set you free.

There are some of you here today who feel like dead people. It is as if you are already six feet under, staring up at the top of your own locked coffin. This morning Jesus wants to set you free. You simply have to let go of the key and pass it through the little hole, where you see a tiny shaft of light.

when a heartbroken daughter of the King offers her pain and suffering to Christ, the enemy suffers a great defeat. Do we feel strong? No, we feel heartbroken. But when we enter into that divine exchange and take our sorrow to Christ, we become strong in His strength.

F . . . fall on your face before Him. E . . . earnestly seek Him. A . . . ask Him to give you His peace. R . . . rest in His presence.