Quotes About Relinquishment

Submission is the willingness to give up our right to ourselves, to freely surrender our insistence on having our own way all the time.

I didn't tell him the rest of what I knew -- that once you gave up even a little of yourself, it wasn't long before you gave up everything. But he'd learn that for himself soon enough.

We have found that when we give up self-will regarding food and completely turn our lives over to our Higher Power, we receive all kinds of guidance.

He held his hands up again. "Subject dropped," he repeated. "I dropped it — look, there it goes, rolling across the floor.

I don't understand people who get power and then just give it up. Just say, 'Oh, what the fuck, I just don't want it anymore. I'm retiring.

It takes more than a casual curtsy or head-tip toward God's sovereignty to let go; it will take a face on the floor, heart-cry of relinquishment before most of us tend to hand over our scepter.

Suffering causes us to scan our lives and face the fact that we control very little. So we mourn not only our suffering but also what it has forced us to admit about ourselves. Our loss of the illusion of control also adds to the fear that accompanies suffering.

You didn't do it, and the sooner you understand that, the better it will be for you and your marriage. You couldn't have done it. You're simply not that powerful and not that wise. You and I like to think that it was all our initiative, but it wasn't. When you face the fact that your marital story is all about the wisdom and will of Another, your understanding of marriage completely changes forever.

Pray and get ready for it. When you are ready, get by yourself, pray for guidance, and finally give the entire matter and everything connected to it to God. Tell God you are giving this person and the entire business to Him, complete in every detail.

Riven eyed him sidelong. "Cale, I think … that he is waiting, too. Like the shadowwalkers." "For what?" Cale started to say, but could not find his voice at first. "For what?" "For you to let him go." Riven gestured at Jak.

Work is never finished, only abandoned.