Quotes About Relinquishment

cree por unos momentos... estar dentro del pensamiento del viento, hasta que comprende que la mente del viento no podrá ser nunca suya ni de nadie

I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding

God talks to those who are humble enough to listen to wise advice, willing to relinquish their plans for His, able to wait and not move ahead of Him impulsively.

One's self is ever a tenuous thing, discovered only in relinquishment.

You will be much more in control, if you realize how much you are not in control.

I may have made a mistake in renouncing my Canadian citizenship, which I have never ceased to promise to try to regain.

I do a project and then I forget about it because the release of whatever work you have done is not in your hand.

The actual stuff my family owned, those boxes under my stairs, I can't quite bear to look at. I like other people's things better. They come with other people's history.

When I got out of baseball, I got all the way out. I might watch a World Series game or something.

If a film is not a success, then that's just the way things are. Nothing I can do can make a difference. I have stopped worrying about it.

Whatever is making you so angry, it's time for you to give it to God and get over it.

I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held.

But nothing on this earth is guaranteed, when you get right down to it, you know? I've been thinking about that. About how your kids aren't really YOURS, they're just these people that you try to keep an eye on, and hope you'll all grow up someday to like each other and still be in one piece. What I mean is, everything you get is really just on loan. Does that make sense? Sure, I said. Like library books. Sooner or later they've all got to go back into the nightdrop.

The gods are leaving.

Resurrection does not have to do exclusively with what happens after we are buried or cremated. It does have to do with that, but first of all it has to do with the way we live right now. But as Karl Barth, quoting Nietzsche, pithily reminds us: "Only where graves are is there resurrection." We practice our death by giving up our will to live on our own terms. Only in that relinquishment or renunciation are we able to practice resurrection.

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

If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it.

My parents divorced when I was very, very young, but they maintained an incredibly amicable relationship. They were great partners, they were great parents, and they were great friends throughout my whole life until I was about 25, at which point they realized that they could relinquish; they could call it and move on.

I've learned that sometimes I have to give up my right to know and simply believe that God's knowing is enough.

I gathered that, instead of fighting mightily against a defect, I also had to let go of it. Just simply open my hands, my heart, and my mind and say to my Higher Power, "Here it is, this defect. I give it to You. Please remove it from me.

I can only sign over everything, the house, the dog, the ladders, the jewels, the soul, the family tree, the mailbox. Then I can sleep. Maybe.

Fear," the doctor said, "is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.

A man may be in as just possession of the truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.