Quotes About Surrender

She was no longer free? Yes! thank God, she was no longer free. But she was light, a nymph on clouds, a fish in water, lost in happiness.

They can do whatever they want with me, I don't care," she murmured. "But tell me you still love me.

The more he surrendered her, the more he would hold her dear. The fact that he gave her was to him a proof, and ought to be one for her as well, that she belonged to him: one can only give what belongs to you.

For a long time he had wanted to prostitute her, and he was delighted to feel that the pleasure he was deriving was even greater than he had hoped, and that it bound him to her all the more, as it bound her to him, all the more so because, through it, she would be more humiliated and ravaged. Since she loved him, she could not help loving whatever derived from him.

In the final analysis, with Rene she had been an apprentice to love, she had loved him only to learn how to give herself, enslaved and surfeited, to Sir Stephen.

And then, because she was Tatiana and because she couldn't help herself, and because he wouldn't have it any other way, she ran to him and was in his arms.

Oh Alexander," she said, "what do you want from me..." "Everything!" he whispered fiercely.

I walked into my dream and kept walking with my Leningrad in front of me and behind me and all around me. I wasn't carrying Russia with me. It was carrying me.

There are some battles, no matter how much you don't want to fight them, that you just have to fight. That are worth giving your life for.

At a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie.

She didn't need to understand the meaning of life; it was enough to find someone who did, and then fall asleep in his arms and sleep as a child sleeps, knowing that someone stronger than you is protecting you from all evil and all danger

When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

A crocodile has caught me and I cannot be saved until you give me permission to become a sanyasin.

I've already given in because I love you.

I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go.

We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart.

I used to have a sign pinned up on my wall that read: Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found in us...It was all about letting go of everything.

If you slow or stop the flow to try to maintain your old comfort level, you only stall your progress, reinforce fear, and create needless pressure and agitation. If you trust that a higher sanity is directing the flow and that it's just right for you and surrender to having the experiences you need, the frequency of your body, emotions, and mind will rise and you will experience the benefits of each phase.

It was so much like falling.

It's okay to love something bigger than yourself without fearing it. Anything worth loving is bigger than we are anyway.

He wondered if a man actively seeking to surrender could be captured.

If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it." – LUKE 9:23-24

Grace for the case is grace for your condition.

The willingness to sacrifice is the prelude to freedom.