All Quotes By Tag: Surrender

“Delight in the pursuit, surrender to imperfection, and marvel at the wonder – as you observe what is.”

“Writing is both an act of power and surrender. Passion and discovery. It is a tug at your soul that continues to pull you forward, even as you go kicking and screaming.” (p.18)”

“Surrender is Serenity & a Bridge to Bliss.”

“It’s through the darkness that deep healing comes to enlighten us. Don’t be afraid of the dark and keep your Faith high instead. A healing process will only take place when we surrender to our own rebirth and a new Life will come from a stronger heart.”

“I can chart my own path.  However, I’ve yet to figure out why so many of my paths always seem to lead to the edge of some really big cliffs. Maybe I should consider charting a path out of charting my path.”

“Everyone has known what it’s like to see their dreams crumble. But these women…have found something more stable to hang onto. They’re not content and fulfilled because circumstances turned out the way they hoped, but because of their faith in a God who is above circumstance.”

“The statement, ‘this is as far as I can go’ is code for ‘I’m blind’, I’m scared’, or both.”

“Our task [as Christians] is to be faithful to the calling of the cross; to live in God’s new world as the agents of his love,and to pray that the cross we carry today will become part of the healing and reconciliation of the world. We will not understand in the present time how it is that our pain, our illness, our heartbreak, our deep frustration, is somehow taken up into the pain of God and the healing of the world; but if we offer it back to God that is precisely what will happen.”

“We cannot hunt for love. We can only surrender and become love’s prey.”

“He is fairer than the morning star, and whiter than the moon. For his body I would give my soul, and for his love I would surrender heaven.”

“Be submissive to one another.’ By this phrase, the idea of hierarchy — that one has authority over another — is completely eliminated. If coercion and force is not used, the submission is completely voluntary, not compulsory.”

“To be more accurate, Eszter continued, it was only a shadow in the mirror, a mirror where the image and the mirror wholly coincided though the shadow nevertheless tried to separate them, to separate two things that had from eternity been the same and could not be separated or cut into two, thereby losing the weightless delight of being swept along with it, substituting, he thought as he stepped away from the drawing-room window, a solid eternity purchased with knowledge for the sweet song of participating in eternity, a song so airy it was lighter than a feather.”

“Love is total surrender, total acceptance and total commitment.”

“There is no such thing as helplessness. It’s just another word for giving up.”

“One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.”