Quotes About Surrender

God help me keep me moving somehow Don't let me start wishing I was with him now I've made it this far without crying a single tear I'd sure hate to break down here

Cómo si se pudiera elegir en el amor. Cómo si no fuera un rayo que te parte los huesos y te deja estaqueado en la mitad del patio... Vos no elegís la lluvia que te va a calar hasta los huesos cuando salís de un concierto

No me des tregua, no me perdones nunca. Hostígame en la sangre, que cada cosa cruel sea tú que vuelves. ¡No me dejes dormir, no me des paz! Entonces ganaré mi reino, naceré lentamente. No me pierdas como una música fácil, no seas caricia ni guante; tálame como un sílex, desespérame.

nada más que dejándome ir en el dejarse ir de las cosas, corriendo inmóvil con el tiempo. Y ya no soplaba viento.

Una de las esperanzas dejó en el suelo su pez de flauta —pues las esperanzas, como el Rey del Mar, están siempre asistidas por peces de flauta—

Gregorovius le acarició el pelo, y la Maga agachó la cabeza. «Ya está», pensó Oliveira, renunciando a seguir los juegos de Dizzy Gillespie sin red en el trapecio más alto, «ya está, tenía que ser. Anda loco por esa mujer, y se lo dice así, con los diez dedos...

Misteriosamente, la cama es como una traición.

Como si pudiese elegir el amor, como si no fuera un rayo que te parte los huesos

Dadora de infinito, yo no sé tomar, perdoname.

Come sleep with me: We won't make Love, Love will make us.

No renuncio a nada, simplemente hago lo que puedo para que las cosas me renuncien a mi.

The purpose of polite behavior is never virtuous. Deceit, surrender, and concealment: these are not virtues. The goal of the mannerly is comfort, per se.

It was as if I'd lost some cosmic game of musical chairs; the song had stopped, I was left standing, and there was simply nothing to be dine about it.

When I'm with you the world stops spinning for a moment and I lose myself completely."-Master Noah to his submissive Emilia

In the end, having no compass for his desires, he yielded to his nature.

War is an admission of failure

He could feel himself sliding into sleep, there was a dream already open and waiting for him to fall into it.

Yet so often it seems that victory eludes us. It is when our self-confidence is finally destroyed and is replaced with dependence upon God that we have victory.

The secret to following God's will, I discovered, usually is wrapped up in rejecting the good for God's best.

When we learn to run to it and embrace it, when we can plan habitually to go without things for Christ's sake, then we've begun to live the life of reasonable service: "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service" (Romans 12:1).

The way to have God near to you is to be humble and broken. As long as we are stubborn and hard and unbending, He will be far from us.

The whole message God wants to tell us is that if we want to experience God, we must first abandon our thoughts and then start thinking His.

All of this beauty comes because we are broken. We no longer have anything to fight for because our lives have been crucified with Christ. We no longer have anything to boast in because our outer man is crushed, our strength is done away with, our reputation insignificant. It is only Christ within us that matters now. And it is only Christ within us, in all His beauty and grace, who can be seen now. His living water is free to flow out of us and bless others.

When we live in rebellion, He can't bless us as He would like.