Quotes About Surrender

It was like being in a car with the gas pedal slammed down to the floor and nothing to do but hold on and pretend to have some semblance of control. But control was something I'd lost a long time ago.

John Lennon says that "living is easy with eyes closed." I want to close my eyes. I want to close my eyes so badly.

Austrian troops had surrendered in tens of thousands, laying down their arms without a struggle.

The enemy hauled our colours down and the slaughter ceased entirely after a while.

Sortez sans combat,' came Napoleon's reply.

Once the British were defeated, there would be peace again – on Napoleon's terms.

Villeneuve looked at Lieutenant Fulcran Fournier and gave him the nod. It was time to surrender.

He turned away, unable to watch as Fournier lowered the colours

Sometimes what seems like surrender isn't surrender at all. It's about what's going on in our hearts. About seeing clearly the way life is and accepting it and being true to it, whatever the pain, because the pain of not being true to it is far, far greater.

You only have to know that at any given moment Jesus Christ has the right of way in your life and you're in the place where God wants you. You don't have to beg for blessing. You thank Him in anticipation. It is inevitable. MAJOR IAN THOMAS

Pray About It: How often we pray for God to remove our problems when God has designed these problems to be vehicles for His strength. Whereas in the past we've prayed for days equal to our strength, today we must pray for power equal to our days. Remember today His strength will be made perfect in your weakness. Prayer imparts the power to walk and not faint. OSWALD CHAMBERS

It's about letting go. It might sound crazy, but it's a kind of acceptance. A being right there and a not being there.

My flash, your blue place. I did some reading. Psychology books call it flow. They talk about losing awareness of your surroundings, about being swept up in the tide-not exactly surrender, but a kind of letting go.

She opened her mouth and let the wind take her breath away.

I kissed her, and stroked the soft planes of flank and thigh, teased with a fingertip and breath and gaze, and when she shuddered like a kite on a long line, when she began to whip and plunge, when she begged me, I turned her and steadied her and let her loose. It was always the same. They flew and I flew, but to different places.

She knows when to let go. You should, too.

Wir müssen das Leben darum bitten, uns vegetieren zu lassen, denn nur so können wir Blüten treiben.

Whoever dares to ask that the moment stop and time suspend its flight surrenders himself to God; whoever celebrates future harmonies sells himself to the devil.

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

As long as I've given something the best I can, have really committed, everything else is up to God.

when you can't climb your way out of such a hole, you tend to crouch down and call it home…

You don't analyze love. You accept it.

Your burden is of false self-identifications—abandon them all.

Nothing ever goes wrong." (Tidak ada satu pun yang berjalan keliru)