Quotes About Surrender

If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave.

Làm gì có vi?c s? m?nh ?ã ??nh s?n, n?u th? ta c? tiêu c?c, b?t ??ng m?c cho s? ph?n run r?i hay sao?

The yoke of beauty is easy to bear Since I need not lay it down.

God hangs my slatted cage, sometimes On Skyey balconies of bloom; He lifts my latch, some rainy days, And lets me hop about His room; But when, at last, He thinks it time To tell me what the Others know, He'll lift the window toward the hills And let me go.

Obedience and resignation are our personal offerings upon the altar of duty.

There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.

I read in some book that if you try to hold people back too much when they're dying it keeps them from being reborn as a Buddha

I implored the gods: Please, let me live.

The intensity of a person unafraid of death, at the end of his rope.

I felt powerless to stop the energy from rush- ing out of my body; it seemed to dissipate with a hissing sound into the darkness.

When exactly did I give myself over to sleep? When did I stop resisting...? I used to be so lively, I was always wide awake — but when was that?

Una specie di reazione chimica su cui non ho nessun controllo. Posso solo stare a guardare. Entra in circolazione con il sangue e in meno di due ore ha preso possesso di me. L'attesa invade completamente l'atmosfera dell'appartamento. Sono ricoperta da una membrana in cui né televisione, né telefonate di amici, né bagni caldi né libri possono fare breccia. Non riesco a vedere più niente. I pensieri più assurdi mi possiedono, come spiriti maligni.

For the first time in his life, he was receiving the priceless gift of a woman's unconditional love and acceptance. It contradicted all that he knew about love, all that he had taught others. And he found himself needing it like a drowning man needs air to breathe and solid ground under his feet.

I noted that it is sometimes hard to tell whether you are being killed or saved by the hands that turn your life upside down.

You only need to lose track of who you are, or who you thought you were supposed to be, so that you end up lying flat on the dirt floor basement of your heart. Do this, Jesus says, and you will live.

To lie flat on the ground with the breath knocked out of you is to find a solid resting place. This is as low as you can go. You told yourself you would die if it ever came to this, but here you are. You cannot help yourself and yet you live.

The world for which you have been so carefully prepared is being taken away from you," he said, "by the grace of God.

Then one night when my whole heart was open to hearing from God what I was supposed to do with my life, God said, "Anything that pleases you." "What?" I said, resorting to words again. "What kind of an answer is that?" "Do anything that pleases you," the voice in my head said again, "and belong to me.

When you live in God, your day begins when you lose yourself long enough for God to find you, and when God finds you, to lose yourself

I have lived through parts of life that no one in her right mind would ever willingly have chosen, finding enough overlooked treasure in them to outweigh my projected wages in the life I had planned. These are just a few of the reasons that I have decided to stop fighting the prospect of getting lost and engage it as a spiritual practice instead.

Worrying is arrogant because God knows what He's doing.

All was in God's plan, and he had to accept even as he didn't understand.

It doesn't mean we forget what's been done to us. But we remember that we don't have to understand God, just to trust Him and have faith in Him.

Letting go wasn't a betrayal, but rather a pure form of love. But letting go entailed acceptance of reality