Surrender quotes

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◆ I like the scientific spirit—the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine—it always keeps the way beyond open—always gives life, thought, affection, the whole man, a chance to try over again after a mistake—after a wrong guess.

- Walt Whitman100

◆ Then, what's the matter?' I wonder, in fact, how many times I have said that or something equal to it to a woman passing palely through my life. What're you thinking? What's made you so quiet? You seem suddenly different. What's the matter? Love me is what this means, of course. Or at least, second best: surrender. Or at the very least, take some time regaling me with why you won't, and maybe by the end you will.

- Richard Ford99

◆ It's healthy to say uncle when your bone's about to break.

- Jonathan Franzen99

◆ No enthusiasm will ever stand the strain that Jesus Christ will put upon His worker, only one thing will, and that is a personal relationship to Himself which has gone through the mill of His spring-cleaning until there is only one purpose left--I am here for God to send me where He will.

- Oswald Chambers99

◆ if someone has just hurt you or broken your heart, if someone has just died, all the grace you need is there-waiting for you to receive it. As long as we are pulled inward-despair and self attention, we aren't free to reach for God's grace. If we mean to leave ourselves alone, we must keep a hand free.

- Eugenia Price99

◆ I wonder if pain comes from surrendering or resisting?

- Donna Lynn Hope99

◆ There is never a moment when God is not in control. Relax! He's got you covered.

- Mandy Hale99

◆ The gap between compassion and surrender is love's darkest, deepest region.

- Orhan Pamuk99

◆ You are only a prisoner when you surrender.

- Tad Williams99

◆ The ego hates losing – even to God.

- Richard Rohr99

◆ Soon madness has worn you down. It's easier to do what it says than argue. In this way, it takes over your mind. You no longer know where it ends and you begin. You believe anything it says. You do what it tells you, no matter how extreme or absurd. If it says you're worthless, you agree. You plead for it to stop. You promise to behave. You are on your knees before it, and it laughs.

- Marya Hornbacher99

◆ There is no such thing as helplessness. It's just another word for giving up.

- Jefferson Smith99

◆ Listen through your screams to the wind still whispering: Don't give up -- Surrender!

- Eric Ganther99

◆ You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination.

- Roman Payne99

◆ Maybe if she saw Jag again... maybe that would wake her up. But if she sees him and remembers, I'm nobody. In more than ways than one.

- Elana Johnson99