Quotes About Relinquishment

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

You will find it hard to hear from God until you let go your rights and your agenda.

I give the Self Life to you, God. I abandon it, release it, deny it, turn it over to you. I'd much rather have you.

Jesus, I surrender the Self Life to you.

There comes a moment in every life when you must let go with your hands—with both hands.

From my locker I collected my sneakers, jock strap, and gym pants and then turned away, leaving the door ajar for the first time, forlornly open and abandoned, the locker unlocked. This was more final than the moment when the Headmaster handed me my diploma. My schooling was over now.

My faith kind of keeps me in touch with the idea that I'm not in control of things.

I did, however, remember a line from a book by Dallas Willard that I had read just recently: "At the beginning of each morning I commit my day to the Lord's care. . . . I have already placed God in charge. I no longer have to manage the weather, airplanes, and other people.

There lies a faith in the absence of control.

Fear," the doctor said, "is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.

Above the town, on the hill brow, the stone angel used to stand. I wonder if she stands there yet, in memory of her who relinquished her feeble ghost as I gained my stubborn one, my mother's angel that my father bought in pride to mark her bones and proclaim his dynasty, as he fancied, forever and a day.

It's all yours. Lock, stock, and cobwebs.

Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.

When we pray, we relieve ourselves of responsibility. We let go and let God. We take our hands off and put our concerns into the hands of Almighty God. And trust me, He can handle whatever we put in His hands.

Just take everything exactly as it is, put it in God's hands and leave it with Him.

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.

Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here. The spiritual journey is the relinquishment, or unlearning, of fear and the acceptance of love back into our hearts.

We are all hopelessly addicted to the delusion that we are in control of anything.

It's never easy letting go. But if we don't learn the art of relinquishment, we'll never move forward to embrace the new relationships God has for us.

He is reminding us that—as he puts it elsewhere—everything we have is actually "on loan" from the universe, and the right attitude is to enjoy it while we have it and relinquish it when it is gone. Indeed, precisely because it will one day be gone, it is all the more precious while we have it.

Where I will nothing for myself, there wills instead my God.

You should give your all to God, and then worry no more about what he may do with what is his.

the truth is that men were simply giving up the ghost.

We are powerless and we take pleasure in being so.