Quotes About Surrender

Everything he let go of had claw marks on it.

in Beauvoir's experience losers were the most dangerous people. Because eventually they got to the stage where they had nothing more to lose.

You and your team are the solution. You need to separate it out. You're catastrophizing, allowing fear into the driver's seat. You're reacting to things that haven't happened and behaving as though they have, or are inevitable. Focus on what is actually happening, here and now." "Surrender to reality,

Surrender to reality,

lines from The Tempest to unnerve

did. The Burghers of Calais." Armand raised his head and stared up into the eyes of Eustache.

Mature love is not a surrender of the self but a surrender to the self. The ego surrenders its hegemony of the personality to the heart, but in this surrender it is not annihilated. Rather it is strengthened because its roots in the body are nourished by the joy that the body feels.

I think of these desert years of mine, not of my choosing. Maybe if it were all smooth and comfortable, if my pride and professionalism were defining life for me, God's steel-quiet, penetrating word would have been lost in the babble and sheen of success.

Lord, to the degree I don't want to do this, bless me.

Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.

Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling.

Nothing costs so much as what is bought by prayers.

Sometimes, all you can do is watch things burn, and wait for the ash to settle.

Can you tell me what it means to waive your rights? I hold my breath as Jacob hesitates. And then slowly, beautifully, the right fist he's been banging against the wooden railing unfurls and is raised over his head, moving back and forth like a metronome.

It's funny how when you are dying, you still fight for the upper hand. You want to pick the terms; you want to choose the date. You'll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you're still the one in control.

Finding God's grace wasn't like locating missing keys or the forgotten name of a 1940s pinup girl – it was more of a feeling: the sun breaking through an overcast morning, the softest bed sinking under your weight. And, of course, you couldn't find God's grace unless you admitted you were lost.

The same things that trip you up as a human will tie you in knots as a spirit, if you don't let go and let God. Speaking of God, He's real and He's there, too. And don't ask what He looks like because you wouldn't understand even if I told you. There's just some things none of us are supposed to know, until it's our time.

También sabía ahora que el gran secreto de la felicidad es aceptar la vida, no controlarla.

I also now knew that agreeing to life is the great secret to happiness, not controlling life. Too

A realidade é que vocês não estão no controle, e os verdadeiros milagres acontecem quando vocês abandonam os brinquedos e confiam em um lugar dentro de você onde não existe limite.

to repent of my former patterns of thinking and live in exchange for something far better.

God has arranged it all so much better than I knew how to; everything has happened just as the other grandmother said it would. Oh, how glad I am that God did not let me have at once all I prayed and wept for!

God does not give us what we ask for, even when we pray and pray and pray, if He knows there is something better for us.

When we admit we're powerless, we go on to recognize that we need a power greater than ourselves to restore us. That power is the one and only true Higher Power, Jesus Christ.