Quotes About Surrender

So my generation fell into the trap, internalizing the either/or as we thought of ourselves as 'hot' or 'cold' and falling victim, once again, to the terms by which our sex had been conveniently divided for so many years. To the degree that sex was the equivalent of the self, surrender to sex was to lose oneself, whereas abstinence would insure its safeguarding, if not its salvation (viv).

Our eyes were locked, I couldn't look away. I was a fly in his web and he was coming for me – I knew it. But I couldn't do anything to stop it. I didn't want to do anything to stop it.

People don't write their own endings," he said.

En même temps, il perçoit soudain avec acuité ce qu'il est en train de perdre, une accalmie dans sa vie hérissée de violence, quelques heures de trève pour s'assoupir un peu, à vrai dire pas grand chose, juste de quoi rendre l'existence supportable.

Oh Lord please don't burn us don't kill or toast your flock. Don't put us on the barbecue or simmer us in stock. Don't bake or baste or boil us or stir-fry us in a wok.

Let him do whatever he wishes, and he will be unable to grasp on to anything to control

Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs.

Accept yourself, your physical condition and your fate as they are at the present moment.

Even in sin, the act of love -done with love- is shadowed with divinity. Its conformity may be at fault, but its nature is not altered, and its nature is creative, communicative, splendid in surrender. It was in the splendor of my surrender to Nina and she to me, that I first understood how a man might surrender himself to God -if a God existed. The moment of love is a moment of union -of body and spirit- and the act of faith is mutual and implicit.

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.

Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.

A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in his love than in your weakness.

We are all pencils in the hand of God.

I can't see what God's plan is. I just know I've got to live with it.

When the divine decree descends, the human being is cornered.

Stand back and accept.'...'Accept that you don't understand anything what is going on around you.'..'Accept that you have no way of even imagining what is happening. And accept your pain, too. And thank God for it.

It is an ironic footnote on Peter Stuyvesant's frenzy at the idea of surrender that he passed his last days, in the late 1660s and early 1670s, in peaceful contentment on his farm in Manhattan, not only unmolested but in friendship with Governor Nicolls. Shorn of power, Peter Stuyvesant was a happier and perhaps a wiser man.

Men, I am not ordering you to attack. I am ordering you to die. In the time that it takes us to die, other forces and commanders can come and take our place.

Allow the fruit to fall and rot, in order to receive more.

Death will come anyway, sooner or later. It doesn't matter whether you were a martyr or died a natural death, peacefully in your bed.

Many rebelled against God. But no one, including atheists and the devil, can ever rebel against happiness. It is the final destination for all.

We all love being in heaven, but no one is ready to leave the world just yet.

We are powerless and we take pleasure in being so.

You must sacrifice pleasure in order to obtain the highest pleasure bestowed from your Creator.