Quotes About Surrender

Being willing to walk away from a power struggle (or worse) is one of the most peaceful actions we can ever take. Doing it without the help of God is difficult for most of us, but seeing it as an opportunity to get closer to God makes it more appealing and far easier.

I turned over, and those big hands got to work on my back. I stifled a whimper in the pillow, because Marco's idea of a massage bore no resemblance whatsoever to the relaxing spa variety. There was no lavender oil, no soothing music, no hot towels. Just an all-out assault on cramped muscles, until they cowered in surrender and turned to Jell-O.

I lay there, no longer fighting, since my head was spinning too much. And because I wasn't going to win anyway. And because I kind of liked the feeling of sensual captivity, at least by this particular jailer.

Sometimes, the only way to win is to lose.

He is longing for us to take our eyes off of our situation and fix them solely upon him. When we adopt this attitude, we live aloud the truth I once heard Elisabeth Elliot declare: "The difference is Christ in me. Not me in a different set of circumstances.

Learn to be thankful in the midst of your unique "whatever" rather than trying to control something you were never meant to control in the first place. You see, God is more concerned with your attitude and your obedience in the role in which he has presently cast you than he is about giving you a starring role in life.

God knows we are limited by time and space; Jesus himself was. He didn't preach to everyone, heal everyone, comfort everyone, or even convert everyone. He simply showed up where God told him to go and did what God told him to do.

Beckon the transitive vampire to your bedside and submit to his kisses thirstily.

Tell me what you want, my love," he rasped through parted lips. "Tell me now." "You, Staff, you. Forever and always. Please." "Only Staff?" "Yes, yes. Please, my love. Put out the fire." "But first I have to fan it brighter," he said low, and moved into her instantly.

When you go into labor you see that you are not the captain of the ship. You are the ship. There is no captain. There are only the waves.

Freedom is instantaneous the moment we accept things as they are.

You have to step through the gate, the false barrier of your critical mind, to see all the ways we habitually reject the very place our lives have landed us. And then, we have to stop plotting an escape. That's what practice is for: staying put.

It's not so bad to find yourself free of the effort to overcome your life. It's not so bad.

Can you give yourself totally to the reality of your life and its unknowable outcome?

When he kisses me again, the last part of me that could stand myself dies.

I close my eyes and ride the mindless bliss. It's all I can do. Be. Feel. Live. I'm Pri-ya again. I always will be with this man.

If V'lane were a signpost, it would read Abandon All Personal Will, Ye Who Tread Here.

There's no point in fighting the tide. It ebbs. It flows. You ride it.

You might be able to thrash your way out of a spiderweb, but thrashing in quicksand doesn't work. The harder you fight, the more ground you lose. Struggling merely expedites your inevitable defeat.

Barrons fucks you up. Ryodan makes you fuck yourself up.

He will concede for her. Always only for her.

When man thinks he knows God's course better than God himself is when hundreds die—

Use me, Lisa," he encouraged softly. "Take whatever you want.

Letting go of rational thought, he surrendered himself to instinct, to the odd quirk within that made him one with machines. The same quirk that had melded him almost effortlessly with his prosthetic limb and perhaps was the reason he'd lost none of his connection with the Force, even though his arm and hand were made of metal.