Quotes About Surrender

Perhaps that is the only way that true love can work, when it is prepared for and embraced without thought, without choice.

True repentance says, "I cannot," and true faith adds, "But God, You can!

Perform, then, this one act of remembrance before this Day passes - Remember there is an army of defense and advance that never dies and never surrenders, but is increasingly recruited from the eternal sources of the American spirit and from the generations of American youth.

But of course the instant I try to make myself relax, true relaxation vanishes, and in its place is a strange phenomenon called "trying to relax." Relaxation happens only when allowed, not as a result of "trying" or "making.

A fairy tale...on the other hand, demands of the reader total surrender; so long as he is in its world, there must be for him no other.

Les 'hommes de bonne volonté', feel Their politics perhaps unreal And all they have believed untrue, Are tempted to surrender to The grand apocalyptic dream In which the persecutors scream

He offers you a chance to surrender. (Female Gallu) I told him to quit sucking the blood of idiots. It's now infected his own intellect. (Stryker)

... plunged into chance, --that is to say, swallowed up in Providence

Be unprepared, that's my motto. Be unprepared, and let life overwhelm you.

I didn't care much what happened to me, so chance didn't matter.

Out of every difficulty Omnipotence can bring us, only let us in childlike confidence cast our burden upon the Lord.

Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles; Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.

Obedience is the highest practical courage.

To get to this place of a warrior's courage, we must give up the stories that have ruled our lives and shatter the self-image we created to affirm our story.

To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid.

Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death.

To conquer death you only have to die.

Death is a supple suitor, that wins at last. It is a stealthy wooing; conducted first by pallid innuendos and dim approach, but brave at last with bugles.

To me death is better than the defensive.

There is only one death, so let it be in the path of Allah

I am ready to meet God face to face tonight and look into those eyes of infinite holiness, for all my sins are covered by the atoning blood.

Death is not fearful. What's fearful is giving up.

It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.

To quit this troubled world is better than to enter it: the rosebud enters the garden with straitened heart and departs smiling.