Quotes About Surrender

To be a leader, or the helpmate of a leader, you have to first die as a person, and Mother was mourning for her approaching death as just a simple village woman.

In die ersten Augenblicke des neuen Tages gehören nicht eigene Pläne und Sorgen, auch nicht der Übereifer der Arbeit, sondern Gottes befreiende Gnade, Gottes segnende Nähe.

Vom ersten Aufwachen bis zum Einschlafen müssen wir den anderen Menschen ganz und gar Gott befehlen und ihm überlassen, und aus unseren Sorgen um den Anderen Gebete für ihn werden lassen.

Wünsche, an die wir uns zu sehr klammern, rauben uns leicht etwas von dem, was wir sein sollen und können. Wünsche, die wir um der gegenwärtigen Aufgabe willen immer wieder überwinden, machen uns – umgekehrt – reicher.

Nicht unsere ausgereckte Bettlerhand, sondern das, womit Gott sie füllt, darauf kommt's an. Und das heißt eben, zunächst nicht wir und unser Tun, sondern zunächst Gott und Gottes Tun.

Keine irdische Macht kann uns anrühren ohne Gottes Willen; Gefahr und Not treiben uns nur näher zu Gott; gewiß ist, daß wir nichts zu beanspruchen haben und doch alles erbitten dürfen.

Man soll Gott in dem finden und lieben, was er uns gerade gibt.

Endings need to be lived, they cannot be ordained.

If I'm called on to shed my blood, it doesn't matter because it's for the good of everyone else.

Entonces él se inclina sobre mí y rodamos enlazados al hueco del lecho. Su cuerpo me cubre como una grande ola hirviente, me acaricia, me quema, me penetra, me envuelve, me arrastra desfallecida. A mi garganta sube algo así como un sollozo, y no sé por qué empiezo a quejarme, y no sé por qué me es dulce quejarme, y dulce a mi cuerpo el cansancio infligido por la preciosa carga que pesa entre mis muslos...

Jesus is parched, for [20]He meets only the ungrateful and indifferent among His disciples in the world, and among His own disciples, alas, He finds few hearts who surrender to Him without reservations, who understand the real tenderness of His infinite Love.

in the smallest things as well as the greatest, God gives the hundredfold in this life to those souls who leave everything for love of Him.212

from the moment I understood that it was impossible for me to do anything by myself, the task you imposed upon me no longer appeared difficult. I felt that the only thing necessary [10]was to unite myself more and more to Jesus and that "all things will be given to you besides.

It is the way of spiritual childhood, the way of trust and absolute surrender.

Then, in the excess of my delirious joy, I cried out: O Jesus, my Love . . . my vocation, at last I have found it . . . MY VOCATION IS LOVE! Yes, I have found my place in the Church, and it is You. O my God, who have given me this place; in the heart of the Church, my Mother, I shall be Love. Thus I shall be everything, and thus my dream will be realized.

precisely because my heart is capable of suffering I want it to give Jesus everything [15] possible.

Perfection consists in [20]doing His will, in being what He wills us to be.

Perfection consists in doing His will, in being what He wills us to be

Exeter was a walled city and on his arrival William found the rebels manning the whole circuit of its ramparts. In a final attempt to induce a surrender he ordered one of the hostages to be blinded in view of the walls, but, says Orderic, this merely strengthened the determination of the defenders. Indeed, according to William of Malmesbury, one of them staged something of a counter-demonstration by dropping his trousers and farting loudly in the king's general direction.

The conqueror's only concession was to allow them to be baptized in their final days,

C'est quand on a tout donné, quand on ne tient plus à rien qu'on possède tout.

Having a body is in itself the greatest threat to the mind... The body encloses the mind in a fortress; before long the mind is besieged on all sides, and in the end the mind has to give itself up.

the kiss, the bodily surrender which would seem natural and but moderately attractive...

Pero de pronto lo recordé, las irreductibles asperezas de un mundo inhumano se aniquilaron mágicamente; las sílabas del verso llenaron luego la medida de un alejandrino; lo que el verso tenía de sobra se desprendió con tanta facilidad y tan ágilmente como una pompa de aire que sale a estallar a la superficie del agua. Y, en efecto, aquella enormidad con que yo había luchado no era más que una sola sílaba.