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Quotes About Relinquishment

What I can do, I will do. What I can't do, I will surrender to the one that can.
~ E'yen A. Gardner
Power isn't having the world at your fingertips; it is having the world at your fingertips and being able to give it up!
~ Tarek Saab
Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket.
~ Ian Fleming, Casino Royale
Some view it as too close to submission; others associate it with codependence or an abdication of personal power. Consequently, the notion of surrendering to anything or anyone has become suspect.
~ David G. Benner
To lose ourselves in God is simply to give up our own will to Him. When a soul can truly say Lord I have no other will than Thine it is truly lost in God and united to Him.
~ Saint Francis de Sales
The world for which you have been so carefully prepared is being taken away from you, by the grace of God.
~ Walter Brueggemann
Fortunately, we are not in control.
~ Willie Nelson
The best place any Christian can ever be in is to be totally destitute and totally dependant upon God, and know it.
~ Alan Redpath
Relinquishment of burdens and fears begins where adoration and worship of God become the occupation of the soul.
~ Frances J Roberts
There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.
~ John Ortberg
If we are to receive the blessings God wants to bestow upon us, we must be willing to give Him the messes in our lives.
~ Joyce Meyer
Christianity = me moving out, God moving in.
~ Eric Ludy
It hurts when God has to PRY things out of our hand!
~ Corrie Ten Boom
To pray with your fists closed means you're hanging onto something. Let it go. Open your hands to God.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
We must free ourselves to be filled by God. Even God cannot fill what is full.
~ Mother Teresa
Abandonment to God is of more value than personal holiness!
~ Oswald Chambers
Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
That's what's nice about directing a film and having it done: There's nothing more I can do about it. It's done. That's it. All I can do is let it go and hope that people are kind to it.
~ Tom Hanks
The universe, I'd learned, was never, ever kidding. It would take whatever it wanted and it would never give it back.
~ Cheryl Strayed
let it go -- the smashed word broken open vow or the oath cracked length wise -- let it go it was sworn to go let them go -- the truthful liars and the false fair friends and the boths and neithers -- you must let them go they were born to go let all go -- the big small middling tall bigger really the biggest and all things -- let all go dear so comes love
~ E.E. Cummings
Deny thy self!
~ Eckhart Tolle
Talking of 'letting go of a lot of stuff,' his father handed the phrase back to Seamus, held by the corner like someone else's used handkerchief....
~ Edward St. Aubyn
Control and certainty are myths.
~ Edward T. Welch
Kahraman, gururun aldat?c? ilah?ndan vazgeçerek kölelikten kurtulur ve sonunda mutsuzlu?un hakikatine eri?ir. Bu vazgeçi?, yarat?c? vazgeçi?ten ay?rt edilemez. Romant?ik bir yazar? gerçek romanc? yapan metafizik arzuyu yenmesidir.
~ Rene Girard