Surrender Quotes - Page 33

• The call of Christ is to deny ourselves and to let go of our lives. To relinquish control of our lives, to surrender everything we are, everything that we do, our direction our safety our security is no longer found in the things of this world. It is found in Christ. And that is great risk when it comes to the things of this world.

  David Platt

  Letting Go, Safety, Risk

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• This it is that gives a majesty so pure and touching to the historic figure of Christ; self-abandonment to God, uttermost surrender, without reserve or stipulation, to the guidance of the Holy Spirit from the Soul of souls; pause in no darkness; hesitation in no perplexity, recoil in no extremity of anguish, but a gentle unfaltering hold of the invisible Hand, of the Only Holy and All Good--these are the features that have made Jesus of Nazareth the dearest and most sacred image to the heart of so many ages.

  James Martineau

  Jesus, Heart, Invisible Hand

  James Martineau (1905). “A Martineau year book: Extracts from sermons”

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• In the end what you don't surrender, well, the world just strips away.

  Bruce Springsteen

  World, Ends, Wells

  Song: Human Touch, Album: Human Touch, 1992

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• Back then, it's weird, because I wasn't consciously thinking about it and I think that's why the doors opened and I had the opportunity. It was a big shift and I realized that you can plan and think your life is going somewhere, but you also have to surrender to what opportunities present themselves and really go for those as well.

  Jillian Hervey

  Opportunity, Thinking, Doors

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I could go on for days about why I love yoga. One of my favorite parts is I can't think about anything else other than doing what the teacher tells me to do. For me, someone who has a million things going on at any given moment, that kind of surrender is liberating. I also learn so much about myself - my limitations, my potential, how to be mindful of an injury.

  Donna Karan

  Teacher, Yoga, Thinking

  "Donna Karan's New Fragrance Is Zen in a Bottle" by Kristina Rodulfo, www.elle.com. September 16, 2016.

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• My understanding is that to love, we need to be able to totally surrender to the living/dying nature of this world.

  Tara Brach

  Understanding, Dying, Needs

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• A story a friend told me about being in New York and meeting this Latin-lover kind of guy. They went up to her hotel room, and the guy kind of pounced on her and told her to spread her legs, shouting, "Surrender the pink! Surrender the pink!" That's where it's from.

  Carrie Fisher

  New York, Latin, Guy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was watching the TV broadcasts interviewing people stranded at airports for days on end, losing their holidays, their important business meetings and the long-awaited ability to see their families... In short, suffering. No one complained, though! They kept repeating: we are so grateful for the care taken of our safety, for feeling. They were ready to surrender a good deal of their human dignity, individuality, freedom of choice.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Taken, Grateful, Holiday

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• So my father [Erwin Rommel] decided during the battle in Normandy, he knew really soon that it wasn't possible to win this battle. But my father decided pretty soon to, if necessary, to surrender on his own responsibility when the British or Americans penetrate the German positions.

  Manfred Rommel

  Father, Responsibility, Winning

  Source: archives.nbclearn.com

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• I will never surrender the rights of the individual - the complete rights of the individual - to any "ism" whatever.

  Murray Bookchin

  Rights, Isms, Individual

  Interview with Jeff Riggenbach, reason.com. October 1979.

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• We have to understand that America can't just surrender and lose jobs year in and year out. We have to say to our friend in China, look, you guys are playing aggressively. We understand it. But this can't keep on going. You can't keep on holding down the value of your currency, stealing our intellectual property, counterfeiting our products, selling them around the world, even to the United States.

  Mitt Romney

  Jobs, Years, America

  Source: genius.com

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• When one talks about being like a dead corpse in the hands of a spiritual teacher it means being able to surrender one's will, specially one's nafs al ammarah, that is a part of our soul which is again a Quranic term, which commands us to evil - we must surrender that. That's what it means. It doesn't make you become part of a cog of a machine.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Spiritual, Teacher, Mean

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• In fact, the machine doesn't have the consciousness we have, the free will that we have, and to surrender one's free will, not in every matter but in spiritual matters, to a spiritual teacher is in a sense a lower level of surrendering one's will to God.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Spiritual, Teacher, Machines

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Many people have criticized Islam for being just automatic, having no individuality, just surrendering your will to God, but we Muslims know very well that every moment of the day we have to practice the fact that to surrender one's self to God is an act of free will.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Self, Practice, People

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• When you have done everything that you can do, surrender. Give yourself up to the power and energy that's greater than yourself.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Giving, Energy, Done

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• There is no word for feeling nostalgic about the future, but that's what a parent's tears often are, a nostalgia for something that has not yet occurred. They are the pain of hope, the helplessness of hope, and finally, the surrender to hope.

  Michael Ian Black

  Pain, Parent, Feelings

  Michael Ian Black (2012). “You're Not Doing It Right: Tales of Marriage, Sex, Death, and Other Humiliations”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• I say to the Taliban: surrender the terrorists; or surrender power. It's your choice.

  Tony Blair

  Choices, Terrorist, Taliban

  Address at the Labour Party Conference, delivered 2 October 2001

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• Angel looks down at him and says, “Oh, pretty boy, Can't you show me nothing but surrender?

  Patti Smith

  Angel, Boys, Looks

  Song: Land:; Horses Land Of A Thousand Dances La Mer, Album: Horses (Aniv) (Dlx) (Dig)

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• This is how we court girls in America. We grab them and kiss them. And if they don't like it, we do it again, harder and longer, until they surrender. It saves us hours of witty repartee.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Girl, Witty, Kissing

  Lisa Kleypas (2008). “A Wallflower Christmas: A Novel”, p.35, Macmillan

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• She is like all the rest of them. Whether they are seventeen or fortyseven, when they finally come to surrender completely, it's going to be in words.

  William Faulkner

  Seventeen

  William Faulkner (1972). “Light in August”, Vintage

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• It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Courage, Self Confidence, Men

  "The Concept of Irony: With Constant Reference to Socrates". Book by Søren Kierkegaard, Collins, "Irony as a Mastered Moment: The Truth of Irony," pt. 2, 1966.

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• I don't suppose you would consider peaceful surrender?

  Eoin Colfer

  Peaceful, Artemis Fowl

  Eoin Colfer (2001). “Artemis Fowl”

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• ...people don't respect the morning. An alarm clock violently wakes them up, shatters their sleep like the blow of an ax, and they immediately surrender themselves to deadly haste. Can you tell me what kind of day can follow a beginning of such violence? What happens to people whose alarm clock daily gives them a small electric shock? Each day they become more used to violence and less used to pleasure.

  Milan Kundera

  Morning, Sleep, Blow

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• [Riley] slapped his hands to his face and then dropped them as if in surrender. 'I always say the wrong thing around you. Look, can we start over?' Over?" Yes. Over. Wipe the board clean.' But I would have to go back to hating you and not trusting you' I said Oh, well don't do that.' He paused and chewed his lip. 'Does that mean you like and trust me now?' " - Riley and Trella

  Maria V. Snyder

  Hate, Mean, Hands

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• Cassandra always hid when she read, though she never quite knew why. It was as if she couldn't shake the guilty suspicion that she was being lazy, that surrendering herself so completely to something so enjoyable must surely be wrong. But surrender she did. Let herself drop through the rabbit hole and into a tale of magic and mystery.

  Kate Morton

  Lazy, Magic, Rabbits

  Kate Morton (2010). “The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden”, p.529, Simon and Schuster

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