Quotes About Surrender

Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.

The real hope is not in something we think we can do, but in God, who is making something good out of it in some way we cannot see.

I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.

There is nothing beyond God, and the sense enjoyments are simply something through which we are passing now in the hope of getting better things.

We hold on to hope, and hope robs us of the present moment.

All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.

When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.

I am throwing all my good works overboard, and lashing myself to the plank of free grace; for I hope to swim to glory on it.

You must either give up your sins or give up all hope of heaven.

My sweetest hope is to lose hope

We must do without hope.

I do not hope for what I cannot have! I do not cling to things I cannot keep!

Abandon every hope, you who enter.

To gain the book, one must give up all hope for the book. It is the only way the book can get written.

Hope for the best and make peace with the rest.

We gave ourselves for lost men, and prepared for death. Yet we did lift up our hearts and voices to God above, who "showeth His wonders in the deep".

Sometimes you need to stop fighting to stop drowning

Life is many things, but if you don't try to control it, it will take hold of you and ruin you.

No hope no action.

I am dying: it's a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of the cello: dying. But the sound of it is the only beautiful thing about it.

I used to own an ant farm but had to give it up. I couldn't find tractors small enough to fit it.

Having a baby is like a DUI from the universe.

Sell your presence and purchase bewilderment.

Yo soy carne muerta. Translation: I am dead meat.