Quotes About Surrender

I do a project and then I forget about it because the release of whatever work you have done is not in your hand.

Jesus showed me what it means to be holy - he did his father's will no matter how difficult it was to accomplish.

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

I always ask God if it is his will, and if so, then let it be. Whatever comes out of it I will accept it. That's the message I got and that's why I'm here at Hull.

God will have a humble people. Either we can choose to be humble, or we can be compelled to be humble.

Victory gives birth to hate; The defeated sleep in anguish. Giving up both victory and defeat, Those who have attained peace sleep happily.

I hadn't necessarily wanted to be cured. But I was out of places to write, slicing myself between my toes—bad, cry—like a junkie looking for one last vein. Vanish did it for me. I'd saved the neck, such a nice prime spot, for one final good cutting. Then I turned myself in.

If she were alive, someone would need to return her. If she were dead, nature would have to give her up.

We are tempted to abandon prayer as a viable exercise and to try getting the results ourselves.

At one point, Ferrell notes that Truman actually gave thought to the sufferings of women and children should we go nuclear in Korea. As for Truman's original decision to use two atomic bombs on Japan, most now agree that a single demonstration would have been quite enough to cause a Japanese surrender while making an attractive crater lake out of what had been Mount Fujiyama's peak.

You only lose what you cling to.

It's all going the way it's supposed to be going Otherwise, it would be going some other way." —SANDY HARPER, 1978

You were there teaching me to squander, so that one day we might have nothing left except this love of You. But You are too good to me. When I ask You for Pain, You give me peace. Give it him too. Give him my peace-he needs it more.

Can you explain away love too?' I asked. 'Oh yes,' he said. 'The desire to possess in some, like avarice: in others the desire to surrender, to lose the sense of responsibility, the wish to be admired. Sometimes just the wish to be able to talk, to unburden yourself to someone who won't be bored. The desire to find again a father or a mother. And of course under it all the biological motive.

All the same you needed to be a little drunk to die.

You let go. It's as simple and as complicated as Antonia had told me. You cry. You come. You sing. You laugh. You scream. You let go. No one needs to hang on to a first edition. Whoever wrote it; even if it was Moses. I looked back up at the sky, blinking at the lustrous beauty of the ascending and departing demons. They formed an alphabet I was beginning to learn to read. They were fire in the sky.

The headsman's axe knows not where it is to fall. It is simply a weapon directed by the hand of another. - Ahzek Ahriman

Abandon the 'I', because it's a lie.

All is one in Darkseid. The mighty body is my church. When I command your surrender, I speak with three billion voices...

Often we fear the most difficult experiences of life only to discover that these are the experiences that bring Jesus Christ closer to us.

Our central job is not to solve the world's problems. Our job is to draw our entire life from Christ and manifest that life to others. Nothing could be simpler—and nothing could be more challenging.

Sometimes, in India, you have to surrender before you win.

Tomorrow,' she said, 'when you go to Prabaker's village, try to relax completely, and go with the experience. Just … let yourself go. Sometimes, in India, you have to surrender before you win.

every time I entered the slum I felt the urge to let go and surrender to a simpler, poorer life, that was yet richer in respect, and love, and a vicinal connectedness to the surrounding sea of human hearts.