Quotes About Surrender

Sizi sürükleyen dalgad?r,yaÅŸam bu; ne yarg?lanabilir, ne anla??labilir, b?rak?n gitsin demekten baÅŸka yapacak bir ÅŸey yok.

And yet-I wonder. Love or hatred calls for self-surrender. He cuts a fine figure, the warm-blooded, prosperous man, solidly entrenched in his well-being, who one fine day surrenders all to love-or to hatred; himself, his house, his land, his memories.

I no longer fight, I accept.

Puisqu'après tant d'efforts ma résistance est vaine, Je me livre en aveugle au destin qui m'entraîne

It was like letting go and falling back into water and seeing yourself grinning up through the water, your face like a mask, and seeing the bubbles coming up as if you were trying to speak from under the water. And how do you know what it's like to try to speak from under water when you're drowned?

He was still looking steadily at her. His eyes were clear, cool and hard, but something in the depths of them flickered and shifted. She thought: 'He'd take any advantage he could -- fair or unfair. Caddish he is.' Then as she stared back at him she felt a great longing to put her head on his knees and shut her eyes. To stop thinking. Stop the little wheels in her head that worked incessantly. To give in and have a little peace. The unutterably sweet peace of giving in.

Say die and I will die. Say die and watch me die.

Their throats were bare for God.

When I met you I was moving like a blind arrow shot in time of need. I was flint-sharp, flint-primitive. I was aim, arrow, and target. I wanted to be wounded again. I did not want to seal myself against life. I would rather be cut than dry.

Fall for me, as an apple falls, as rain falls, because you must. Use gravity to anchor your desire.

there's no choice that doesn't mean a loss

To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.

You never really know what's going on with your ceiling until you just give up and lie down on your floor.

Let God operate in thee; Hand the work over to Him and do not disquiet thyself as to whether or no He is working with nature or above nature, for His are both nature and grace.

I don't claim anything of the work. It is his work. I am like a little pencil in his hand. That is all. He does the thinking. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it.

God asks for men who are totally broken and who will follow Him even to death to work for Him.

Transcendent Oneness does not require self-examination, self-help, or self-work. It requires self-loss.

The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.

Life has a way of working out the way it's meant to.

Life doesn't work out the way we plan, but maybe it works out the way it's supposed to after all.

Show so clearly that this matter is God's work, not mine.

Consider any work you do, as work coming from God's will.

Baptism is bowing before the Father and letting him do his work.

At the end of oneself was the best place to discover the Lord at work.