Quotes About Surrender

Alejandría, debelada, imploró en vano la misericordia del César

Let no one reduce us to the status of ascetics. There is no pleasure more complex than that of thought and we surrendered ourselves to it.

Calm Down what happens happens mostly without you.

What I would like to leave behind is a simple prayer that each of you may find what I have found—God's special gift to us all: the gift of peace. When we are at peace, we find the freedom to be most fully who we are, even in the worst of times. We let go of what is nonessential and embrace what is essential. We empty ourselves so that God may more fully work within us. And we become instruments in the hands of the Lord.

He must put aside his pride, his virtue, beauty and life and bow or submit to the absolutely intolerable.

T]he experience of mystery comes not from expecting it but through yielding all your programs, because your programs are based on fear and desire. Drop them and the radiance comes. (16)

You should be willing to be eaten also. You are food body.

We have to let go of our plans if we are to become the person we are meant to be.

We must be willing to get rid the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.

There's just something about letting a girl have her way with you.

Christianity takes for granted the absence of any self-help and offers a power which is nothing less than the power of God.

The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can't make a wrong choice--any choice will be the right one.

In Yorkshire there is only the impetus of decline; the farms, the woolen mills, the dairy rounds wither, unravel and turn sour. The family wears out, stumbles politely, tripping over drink and ennui and a genteel surrender to the momentum of underachievement.

All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.

The only way to kill me was to welcome his own death, and he did it the moment the chance arose.

Here's the thing about believing: sometimes it's a question of will. You work at it. You keep telling yourself to believe in something, and eventually your brain surrenders and lets the belief in. Sometimes it's like a switch being flipped, an overnight thing, a wake up and look at the ceiling and say THIS IS HOW THE WORLD WORKS NOW AND I GUESS I'M OKAY WITH IT sort of thing.

Le savant a pris la science, le renonçant a pris le renoncement, le dévot a pris les dévotions, et tous s'en est allés ainsi à Sa rencontre. Prends la pureté et cours à Sa rencontre car c'est Lui le plus pur.

Il existe trois étapes vers la perfection pour les hommes. la première consiste à te connaitre, comme Dieu te connait -et je ne connais personne qui ait une telle connaissance de soi- , la deuxième consiste à ce que tu sois avec Dieu et à ce qu'Il soit, et la troisième consiste à ce que tu ne sois plus et que tout soit Lui.

I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.

Art gives its vision to beauty not always recognized. And it surrenders freely -- whatever power it possesses to every sincere soul that seeks it. But above all else--it presents us with the gift of ourselves.

Well now I know I can control my tongue, my temper & my appetites, but that's it. I have no effect on weather, traffic or luck. I can't make good things happen; I can't keep anybody safe; I can't influence the future & I can't fix up the past. What a relief!" from book A Three Dog Life by Abigail Thomas

Prayer begins where our power ends.

When God says to me, "obey," then I humbly bow my head, without compromising in the least my personal dignity, as a man.

One by one, the remaining Spanish positions were silenced, and by two in the afternoon, the Spanish had surrendered the city.25 Havana—Key to the New World—was now British territory, part of the same empire as the thirteen colonies.