Quotes About Relinquishment

If the 'I am the doer' idea goes, then only I Am remains and that 'I Am' has no religion.

Never get too attached to any thing, son. Somebody will be there to take it from you.'" And

The third component of the Law of Least Effort is defenselessness, which means that your awareness is established in defenselessness, and you have relinquished the need to convince or persuade others of your point of view.

Whatever you are holding onto in this life, hold it loosely so it won't hurt when the Lord has to pry your fingers open to take it away.

Never say of anything that I've lost it, only that I've given it back.

Never say of anything that I've lost it, only that Ive given it back.

Surrender the body and its members, physical faculties, property, reputation, office, honours, children, siblings – repudiate them all.

We had sold our death to somebody at the door for the sum of £70:18:6d and lent our fear to somebody at the door as well on interest of £3:10:0d per month, so we did not care about death and we did not fear again.

I don't think I'm gonna die tomorrow or even two weeks from now, or even ever. I just don't know - who the hell knows what's gonna happen to them? Nobody! Isn't that comforting? Nobody has a clue. I like that we don't know. And I like that it's somebody else's decision, not mine.

The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.

You never really own a diamond. You just get to keep it for a while before it begins a new journey with someone else.

Because they no longer wanted to retain God in their minds and lives, Paul informed us in Romans 1:28 that "God gave them over.

When it comes to freedoms, it is more dangerous to have given for a while than never to have given at all.

He never understood. You surrender after you're dead.

Well, now I know I can control my tongue, my temper, and my appetites, but that's it. I have no effect on weather, traffic, or luck. I can't make good things happen. I can't keep anybody safe. I can't influence the future and I can't fix up the past. What a relief.

You were supposed to be free [...] That was all I had to give you.

His expression seems a sort of surrender: the loss of a thing that he has already lost before.

There was that word again.Mature. Was this what maturity was? Giving up on the things we wanted because we knew we'd never get them?

I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.

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!

To hell with it. What was the use trying to make safe and sure our little life? Sooner or later the great wave must come and sweep it all away. "What about a drink with me, Fred?

Whenever you finish an artwork and the viewer comes and views it, at that moment you've given up control.

I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me.

What I'm finding is there's an awful lot about adoption and relinquishment and the complicated nature of family that we, as human beings, haven't been able to have a real discussion about yet without a lot of censorship.