Quotes About Surrender

Ogra?ujem se, utišavam, slušam muziku. ?udno djeluje na mene, gotovo hipnoti?no, s njom se ne sporim. Ništa joj ne mogu. Nemjerljiva je, sveobuhvatna, strašna po snazi, ne mogu da je odvojim, ne mogu da je doživljavam kao nešto izvan sebe, useljava mi se u krv, dišem njome

Moja molitva i moja pokora, moj život i moja smrt, sve to pripada Bogu, stvoritelju svijeta. Ali moja žalost pripada meni.

Život je izbor a ne sudbina, jer obi?an ?ovjek živi kako mora, a pravi kako ho?e. Život na koji se bez otpora pristaje to je bijedno tavorenje, a izabrani život je sloboda. ?ovjek postaje slobodan svojom odlukom, otporom i nepristajanjem.

Ali ta slabost, i taj strah pred neslu?enim teško?ama, ta želja da se legne i umre, da se odustane i primi sudbina, ne smiju sad da me zaustave. Nikakav zamor ni klonulost ne mogu me sprije?iti da izvršim obavezu. Moram. Idi naprijed, poslije umri.

If you love something, set it free. If it was meant to be, it will come back to you.

It was too easy. Letting go also meant other things, things people never discussed. There were restrictions; everything always had to be cathartic these days.

To be capable of shutting the world out, even death itself, and surrendering to the body, trusting in its powers, its secrets. No feeling but this. No feeling

But this won't happen until Ventura surrenders the pee stick. And she's clutching the gold-plated positive pregnancy test like a talisman, unwilling to let it go and let someone else get a word in edgewise.

Battles are won, not with weapons, but with God. They are won where the way leads to the cross.

You cannot muscle your way to health when you are chronically ill. Rather, one way of coming to terms with an amorphous systemic disease is recognizing that you are sick, that the illness will come and go, and that it is not the kind of illness you can conquer.

Every weed's fate is to bow in front of the wind!

Everything is a slave of something else: Clouds, of the winds; men, of the desires; universe, of the chaos; shadows, of the light.

Give your freedom to someone or to something and then look at yourself what have you got? I tell you, you've got nothing left!

He who believes in the fate accepts the collar in his neck!

Praying is sending an SOS to the heavenly unknown.

We are always at the mercy of powers greater than us, even when our power is at its highest level!

God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.

Indeed, the more we are our own possession, the less we are God's possession.

say, 'I wish to come to you so that your wealth shall fill my poverty, your infinity shall fill my emptiness, and your immeasurable, incomprehensible Godhead shall fill my base and wretched humanity.

Christ said: 'Whoever leaves anything for my sake will receive again a hundredfold in return' (Matt 19:29).

When we go out of ourselves through obedience and strip ourselves of what is ours, then God must enter into us; for when someone wills nothing for themselves, then God must will on their behalf just as he does for himself.

If God told an angel to go to a tree and pluck caterpillars off it, the angel would be quite ready to do so, and it would be his happiness, if it were the will of God.

our Lord said, 'Blessed are the poor in spirit' (Matt. 5:3), which is to say those who are poor in will.

Furthermore, we should keep all things only as if they had been merely lent and not given to us, without any sense of possessiveness, whether it be our body or soul, our senses, faculties, worldly goods or honour, friends, relations, house or home or anything whatsoever.