Surrender Quotes - Page 37

• To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Mean, Doe, Share

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion”, p.141, Macmillan

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• You have to surrender to the energy above and below.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Energy, Above And Below

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• Repentance is replete with radical implications for a fundamental change of mind not only turns us from the sinful past, but also transforms our life plan, ethics, and actions as we begin to see the world through God's eyes rather than ours. That kind of transformation requires the ultimate surrender of self.

  Charles Colson

  Eye, Past, Self

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• We must be capable of speaking a language of peace, but not one of surrender.

  Silvio Berlusconi

  Language, Capable

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• Remember, Team, surrender the me for the we.

  Phil Jackson

  Team, Remember

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• The French - cheese-eating surrender monkeys. The Germans - schnitzel snarfing stormtrooper spawn.

  Theodore Beale

  Monkeys, Cheese, Eating

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• Prayer makes a godly man, and puts within him "the mind of Christ," the mind of humility, of self-surrender, of service, of pity, and of prayer. If we really pray, we will become more like God, or else we will quit praying.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Humility, Godly

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• The way to a beautiful, strong, healthy body is to start by trusting yourself right now. Let go of the struggle and surrender to your body's needs. Your intuition will tell you what to eat. It may direct you to exercise vigorously, in which case you'll enjoy it, or it may tell you to slow down and rest. It may tell you to stay in bed all day, or it may tell you to get up early. There are no rigid rules. Your body knows perfectly well what's good for it.

  Shakti Gawain

  Beautiful, Letting Go, Strong

  Shakti Gawain (1993). “Living in the Light: A Guide to Personal and Planetary Transformation”, Nataraj Publishing

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• When we surrender to God, we let go of our attachment to how things happen on the outside, and we become more concerned with what happens on the inside.

  Marianne Williamson

  Letting Go, Attachment, Concerned

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• Mystical identification transcends the aristocratic virtue of courageous self-sacrifice. It is self- surrender in a higher, more complete, and more complete and more radical form. It is the perfect form of self-affirmation.

  Paul Tillich

  Sacrifice, Self, Perfect

  Paul Tillich (1968). “The Courage To Be”

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• But there's no reason why we should abdicate our foundational principles because certain groups don't believe in them. You know, no majority should surrender its deeply held beliefs to those who don't believe in anything.

  Pat Robertson

  Believe, Majority, Principles

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• People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.

  Ayn Rand

  Truth, Liars, Lying

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.657, Hamilton Books

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• In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it's wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Thank You, Thanksgiving, Gratitude

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.348, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Beloved, surrender wholeheartedly to Jesus Christ, who loves you. As you drink from the deep well of Scripture, the Lord will refresh you and cleanse you, mold you and re-create you through His Living Word. For the Bible is the very breath of God, giving life eternal to those who seek Him.

  Francine Rivers

  Jesus, Love You, Giving

  Francine Rivers (1993). “A Voice in the Wind”, p.14, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• The human spirit will not even begin to try to surrender self-will as long as all seems to be well with it. Now error and sin both have this property, that the deeper they are the less their victim suspects their existence; they are masked evil. Pain is unmasked, unmistakable evil; every man knows that something is wrong when he is being hurt.

  C. S. Lewis

  Hurt, Pain, Men

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• Gaze into the fire, into the clouds, and as soon as the inner voices begin to speak... surrender to them. Don't ask first whether it's permitted, or would please your teachers or father or some god. You will ruin yourself if you do that.

  Hermann Hesse

  Teacher, Truth, Father

  Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

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• ...only in the surrender of the light could the darkness prevail.

  David Eddings

  Light, Darkness

  David Eddings (2010). “King Of The Murgos: (Malloreon 2)”, p.36, Random House

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• Coming unto the Lord is not a negotiation, but a surrender.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Lord, Negotiation

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• Surrender to a logic more powerful than reason.

  J. G. Ballard

  Powerful, Logic, Reason

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• To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to the violence of our times.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Peace, Demand

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• What the Father gives is the capacity to be a self, freedom, and thus autonomy, but an autonomy which can be understood only as a surrender of self to the other.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Father, Self, Giving

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (1991). “Unless You Become Like this Child”, p.44, Ignatius Press

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• When it seems humanly impossible to do more in a difficult situation, surrender yourself to the inner silence and thereafter wait for a sign of obvious guidance or for a renewal of inner strength.

  Paul Brunton

  Difficult Situations, Silence, Waiting

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• This act of total surrender is not merely a fantastic intellectual and mystical gamble; it is something much more serious. It is an act of love for this unseen person, who, in the very gift of love by which we surrender ourselves to his reality also makes his presence known to us.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Reality, Intellectual

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• When your beauty struck me, it dissolved me. Deep down, I am not different from you. I dreamed you, I wished for your existence. I see in you that part of me which is you. I surrender my sincerity because if I love you it means we share the same fantasies, we share the same madness.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Mean, Different

  Anaïs Nin, “The Diary Of Anaïs Nin, Volume 1: 1931-1934”

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• It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Victory, Might, Defeat

  W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.848, Diversion Books

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