Quotes About Surrender

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

The call to faith and the act of salvation comes entirely from God; faith commitment is both active and passive. Our part is the surrender of the will, the open acceptance of what God has done. It is not a "work" (Eph 2:9), for it is the power of God alone that makes it possible.

If all you got to live for is what you left behind get yourself a powder charge and seal that silver mine.

Feel the power of the Dark Side," he murmured. "Always," Parker said.

He let himself surrender for a moment to a visceral sense of identity which drowned out all his pale mental images of optical processors, all his abstract reflections on the software's approximations and short-cuts. This body didn't want to evaporate. This body didn't want to bail out. It didn't much care that there was another – "more real" – version of itself, elsewhere. It wanted to retain its wholeness. It wanted to endure.

Emma smiled thinly. "The pills say wake up, and we wake up. We won't ever fall asleep at the wrong time again. But it's like being an animal in a factory farm, pushed along between the rails, going wherever you want us to go.

The only way to get what we truly need is to surrender our needs to God.

There are no do overs and some things just aren't going to happen. It is a little sad but you just have to embrace what is

Come on in girls, and leave all hope behind.

J'ai tout donné au soleil. Tout sauf mon ombre

S'il y a une chose à laquelle tu tiens par-dessus tout, n'essaie pas de la retenir. Si elle te revient, elle sera à toi pour toujours. Si elle ne te revient pas, c'est que dès le départ elle n'étais pas à toi.

Aussi terrible que puisse paraître, je pense que l'heure de notre mort est inscrite quelque part et qu'on ne peu rien faire pour y échapper.

ali strast je kao droga: u po?etku misliš da je kontrolišeš, a onda, jednog dana, moraš da priznaš da je ona ta koja upravlja tobom...

Wenn etwas geschehen soll, wirst du es mit keiner Macht verhindern können; und wenn etwas nicht geschehen soll, wirst du es mit keiner Macht zuwege bringen. (Ramana Maharshi)

He understands. He trusts. He, like she, has nothing left to lose.

Death would not be called bad, O people, if one knew how to truly die.

Death would not be called bad, O people, if one knew how to truely die.

Kulupakan hari-hari yang lewat agar aku lahir kembali pada hari ini. Kutenggelamkan puing waktu ke kuburannya yang paling rahasia. Barangkali serahasia mimpi, dan yang ada kemudiannya hanyalah kesamaran. Semakin samar, dan hilang. -Gaga

As Teresa of Avila says, "God does not give himself entirely to us, unless we give ourselves entirely to God.

So true is this that if we do not respond to the demands of the present, because we do not know in advance whither we may be led, we are simply refusing to hear the call of Jesus Christ. We are refusing to open to him when he knocks on the door and invites us to sup with him.

I didn't ask to be made a princess." This time all three of them laugh, although it is gentle enough. "Who chooses their fate?" It is the third one, the tallest. "Who asks to be born into the times that are theirs?" "Well, who accepts the world only as it comes to them?" she says, too quickly.

Judith smiled in her quiet triumph, marveling that not until she gave up the keys had she understood that in doing so she had paid the cost of peace.

To say yes is to die A lot or a little.

there's no cure for love, when it hits you make up your mind, to live with it!