Quotes About Relinquishment

The happiest people I know are the ones who have learned how to hold everything loosely and have given the worrisome, stress-filled, fearful details of their lives into God's keeping.

You can be free. Simply put, you have to give up on Earth.

tired of orchestrating the whole damn world so it would work the way it should. She wanted to see if someone else could do it.

The spiritual life is always about letting go. It is never about holding on.

For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe.

You must learn to let go. Believe me, it's not easy. But you must let whatever will happen, happen

Bowing to this reality, the dying man handed Agrippa the symbol of his authority:

I once asked a Jesuit preist what was the best short prayer he knew. He said "Fuck it." as in "Fuck it, it's in Gods hands.

Not many of us are willing to give up everything we have.

There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.

To let go is not to be in the middle arranging the outcome, but to allow others to affect their own destinies. To let go is not to be protective. It's to permit another to face reality.

If we are to be aware of life while we are living it, we must have the courage to relinquish our hard-earned control of ourselves.

Daarna gaf ik me maar over aan mijn lot, wat bijna altijd het beste is wat je kunt doen.

And the Christian life has suffered loss, where believers have not been distinctly guided to see that, even in our relation as creatures, nothing is more natural and beautiful and blessed than to be nothing, that God may be all;

It seems there's nothing so good or pure it cant be taken without a moment's notice. And then in the end, it all gets taken anyway.

He had made mistakes, but he could overlook these. He had been a fool, but that could be forgiven. The time wasted—must be relinquished

I'm not pressing in anymore. I've been pressed into. I'm not contending anymore. I've been contended for. I'm not a God chaser anymore. I've been chased down, roped, hogtied, bagged and dragged. I'm not appropriating what I have. It's mine. I'm not getting closer to God. He's like a Siamese twin. I'm not even seeking God anymore. He found me.

You can only give things up once they start to let you down.

But in a confused way I felt that if I ran away with the others I would leave with her something of mine that she would never give back.

Pay no heed to those who tell you that they have relinquished place and power of their own accord, and from their love of quiet. For almost always they have been brought to this retirement by their insufficiency and against their will.

When I became the CM in 2002, I had to quit the boards of some institutions, where I was a member.

There is a real sense of loss when a family sells a business they've spent generations building. I wanted to get some of that back.

Such a gift might be easily taken back again.

All 'isms' run out in the end, and good riddance to most of them. Patriotism for example. [...] If in the interest of making sure we don't blow ourselves off the map once and for all, we end up relinquishing a measure of national sovereignty to some international body, so much the worse for national sovereignty. There is only one Sovereignty that matters ultimately, and it is of another sort altogether.