Quotes About Surrender

I plan to starve you into submission,' he growled, nuzzling her breast.

Annie, it is surrender." Somehow Annie knew what he meant. Eric was about to die. Soon after, he fell into a coma. At half past nine that night, Eric Liddell "surrendered" and died.

God," Louie prayed as he walked, "You know I don't want to do that, so if You want me to go to Japan, please make it very clear. I'm a new Christian. You'll have to give me a swift kick in the pants so that I know it's really You.

When God allows something to be taken from you, He replaces it with something better.

But If it is to be, or not, That's all in God's hands.

Only God can bring about the miracle, the rebirth. It is my job to love her, to pray for her, and to leave the rest to Him.

I will not go on, I thought. I won't. I will throw my soul to the wind and blow into a thousand pieces. I will wash up on a shore somewhere like bleached and broken driftwood. I will dry out in the sun until I-and any gift I ever had-shrivel into the sand.

only through losing ourselves and becoming reliant on God can we discover how to use those gifts the way he wants us to use them. We will find the artist God intends us to be when we empty ourselves of self and become open to his plan and to the inspiration of his Holy Spirit. Only then will we experience personal artistic revival.

It's going to sound so cliché, but you've got to stop trying to fix everything." She put a hand up. "I know, I know—this coming from the fix-it queen. But you were never meant to hold all things together. Only God can do that.

Sometimes what we want or don't want doesn't matter in the end. Sometimes magic doesn't listen after all.

The surrender was a turning point for me. That summer I cried nearly every day. It was part of letting up the emotional component that had been only partially present in much of my earlier recovery of memories, and the beginning of a deeper grieving for my losses. The crying itself did not resolve things for me, but it was part of what prepared me for what came later, when the opportunity presented itself to really cleanse the wounds with a qualified trauma therapist.

Death is never as distant as we believe it to be, and it will never come willingly.

The more ready you are to give yourselves to God and to others, the more you will discover the authentic meaning of life.

To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.

Lo que es muy raro es sentir debilidad, verdadera debilidad por alquien, y que nos la produzca, que nos haga débiles. Eso es lo determinante, que nos impida ser objetivos y nos desarme a perpetuidad y nos haga rendirnos en todos los pleitos.

Sin desgracias para nosotros, se entiende; para los enemigos, qué importa: sus desgracias son nuestra fortuna, hasta que termina la contienda y se rinden.

No hay nada mejor que creer que se ha perdido la voluntad, que está uno a merced del oleaje y del vaivén, que puede mecerse y abandonarse; o sí, todavía es mejor creer que la voluntad se ha entregado a otro, a quien ahora corresponderá decidir qué va a pasar.

Our enthusiasm for digital technology about which we have little understanding and over which we have little control leads us not toward greater agency, but toward less...We have surrendered the unfolding of a new technological age to a small elite who have seized the capability on offer. But while Renaissance kings maintained their monopoly over the printing press by force, today's elite is depending on little more than our own disinterest.

We can be fully human without being in complete control of our world.

Is Jesus truly preeminent in your life? Is He number one? If He's "a good two or three," there will be nothing victorious about your experience. In this careening culture and in these perilous days, we must say as never before: "All to Jesus I surrender, all to Him I freely give.

Only in the Christian life does surrender bring victory.

Stayed on Omnipotence, safe 'neath His wing, Leave all results, do the next thing.20

Es una ley de la existencia que quien ha luchado por conseguir algo sin lograrlo, lo obtenga en el momento en el cual abandona el deseo.

Do Your Best, Let God Do The Rest