Quotes About Relinquishment

All Mature Spirituality Is About Letting Go

Stop trying. Stop forcing reality. Learn the mystery of surrender and trust, and then it will be done unto you, through you, with you, in you, and, very often, in spite of you.

All great spirituality is somehow about letting go.

Surrender is hard work.

And I saw a little girl, her eyes tightly closed, holding to her breast the old kind of world, one that she knew in her heart could not remain, and she was holding it and pleading, never to let her go.

And I saw a little girl, her eyes tightly closed, holding to her breast the old kind world, one that she knew in her heart could not remain, and she was holding it and pleading, never to let her go.

Next to the assumption of power was the responsibility of relinquishing it.

The hardest thing I have done is given up power.

The only way to win a power struggle is to give it up.

Prayer is the way to die to our own wishes and surrender everything to God.

Das einzige Mittel, dem Entsetzen zu entgehen, besteht darin, sich dem Entsetzen zu überlassen.

I have one overarching preference, and that is whatever the universe prefers. I don't have to like it or understand it, though I usually do.

The street resembled fairgrounds deserted in haste. There was a little of everything: suitcases, briefcases, bags, knives, dishes, banknotes, papers, faded portraits. All the things one planned to take along and finally left behind. They had ceased to matter.

Here, take this knife," he said. "I won't need it anymore. You may find it useful. Also take this spoon. Don't sell it. Quickly! Go ahead, take what I'm giving you!" My inheritance …

You can never lose what you have offered to Christ.

If God gave it to me, we say it's mine. I can do what I want with it. No. The truth is that it is ours to thank Him for and ours to offer back to Him, ours to relinquish, ours to lose, ours to let go of - if we want to find our true selves, if we want real Life, if our hearts are set on glory.

If my life is surrendered to God, all is well. Let me not grab it back, as though it were in peril in His hand but would be safer in mine!

Then he laid the Bible in the snow and walked away.

he had a way of taking your hand which made it clear he'd have to be the one to let go.

Acababa de enterarme de la terrible noticia a la que, un día u otro, todo humano tiene que enfrentarse: lo que amas, lo perderás. "Lo que te ha sido dado te será arrebatado".

We can only lose what we have first claimed.

You can't come back to something that is gone.

I sha'n't catch up in this world, anyway. I'd rather you'd not go unless you must.

So what i took as a yes from him was in actuality more of a quiet surrender, not much an acceptance as an act of relinquishment by one too weary to decide, and far too tired to believe.