Surrender Quotes - Page 38

• Indeed, she often wondered if she were dead, or dying from the inside out, and that was the root of her calm, the reason she could surrender her character.

  Gregory Maguire

  Character, Roots, Dying

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• At the heart of the gospel is a God who deliberately surrenders to the wild, irresistable power of love.

  Philip Yancey

  Heart, Power Of Love

  Philip Yancey (1997). “What's So Amazing about Grace?”, p.66, Harper Collins

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• all success cloaks a surrender

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Cloaks

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• breathtaking, adj. Those moments when we kiss and surrender for an hour before we say a single word.

  David Levithan

  Kissing, Breathtaking, Moments

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• Their mother had always stressed the importance of taking care of yourself first, your family second and everyone else not at all.. darkest surrender

  Gena Showalter

  Mother, Stressed, Care

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Surrender”, p.13, HQN Books

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• ...Go somewhere else. Somewhere safer.” Anywhere else. God, please. Or he was likely to do something horribly awful, like surrender his sanity and kiss her.

  Anne Mallory

  Kissing, Somewhere Else, Awful

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• Only God is capable of telling us what our rights and needs are. You have to surrender that right to Him.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Rights, Needs, Capable

  Joni Eareckson Tada (1994). “Joni Eareckson Tada: Her Story”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• This banjo surrounds hate and forces it to surrender.

  Pete Seeger

  Hate, Banjos, Force

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• Since the notion that we should all forsake attachment to race and/or cultural identity and be “just humans” within the framework of white supremacy has usually meant that subordinate groups must surrender their identities, beliefs, values, and assimilate by adopting the values and beliefs of privileged-class whites, rather than promoting racial harmony this thinking has created a fierce cultural protectionism.

  Bell Hooks

  Thinking, Race, Attachment

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• Take away from love the fullness of self surrender, the completeness of personal commitment, and what remains will be a total denial and negation of it.

  Pope John Paul II

  Commitment, Self, Denial

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• But no one can lose sight of what he desires. Even if there are moments when he believes the world and the others are stronger. The secret is this: do not surrender.

  Paulo Coelho

  Believe, Sight, Secret

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• she kept sliding down, in small half-willing surrenders, till she was a heap, with the book held tiringly above her face.

  Alan Hollinghurst

  Book, Half, Faces

  Alan Hollinghurst (2011). “The Stranger's Child”, p.6, Pan Macmillan

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• Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety. And at such a moment, unable to see and not daring to imagine what the future will now bring forth, one clings to what one knew, or dreamed that one possessed. Yet, it is only when a man is able, without bitterness or self-pity, to surrender a dream he has long cherished or a privilege he has long possessed that he is set free - he has set himself free - for higher dreams, for greater privileges.

  James A. Baldwin

  Breakup, Dream, Real

  "Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son". Book by James A. Baldwin, 1961.

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• If all of the steps of surrender are present, then a great Rembrandt or Monet will evoke love because the artist is simply there in all his naked humanity.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Artist, Humanity

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• Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace.

  Aberjhani

  Angel, Grace, Sorrow

  Aberjhani (2010). “The River of Winged Dreams (Hardcover Gift Edition)”, p.63, Lulu.com

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• In order for this to happen, your entire frame of reference will have to change, and you will be forced to surrender many things that you now scarcely know you have.

  James A. Baldwin

  Order, Frame Of Reference, Happens

  "Letter from a Region in My Mind" by James A. Baldwin, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 1962.

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• I did not understand that she was hiding her feelings under irony, that this is usually the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded, and that their pride makes them refuse to surrender till the last moment and shrink from giving expression to their feelings before you. to have guessed the truth from the timidity with which she had repeatedly approached her sarcasm, only bringing herself to utter it at last with an effort.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Pride, Sarcasm, Expression

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• Faith is the surrender of the mind; it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other mammals. It's our need to believe, and to surrender our skepticism and our reason, our yearning to discard that and put all our trust or faith in someone or something, that is the sinister thing to me. Of all the supposed virtues, faith must be the most overrated.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Believe, Animal

  "Penn & Teller: Bullshit! (Holier Than Thou)". TV Series, May 23, 2005.

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• Not everyone can stand up and be a hero, Princess. Some prefer to surrender to the inevitable and salve their consciences with the gift of survival.

  Tad Williams

  Princess, Hero, Survival

  Tad Williams (2005). “The Stone of Farewell: Book Two of Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn”, p.45, Penguin

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• Throwing down your staff may sound like a sign of surrender, but in Egyptian magic, it's bad news. It usually means, 'Hey, I'm going to summon a big nasty thing to kill you while I stand safely inside my circle and laugh'.

  Rick Riordan

  Mean, Circles, Laughing

  Rick Riordan (2011). “The Throne of Fire (The Kane Chronicles Book 2): The Throne of Fire”, p.131, Penguin UK

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• When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness ...Maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Dream, Lying, May

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• Oh, the sweetness of giving in, of full surrender.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Giving, Sweetness, Giving In

  Sebastian Faulks (2007). “Engleby: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• The proper good of a creature is to surrender itself to its Creator—to enact intellectually, volitionally, and emotionally, that relationship which is given in the mere fact of its being a creature. When it does so, it is good and happy.

  C. S. Lewis

  Doe, Facts, Given

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• Hey Pudge," the Colonel said. "What do you think of a truce?" "It reminds me of when the Germans demanded that the U.S. surrender at the Battle of the Bulge," I said. "I guess I'd say to this truce offer what General McAuliffe said to that one: Nuts.

  John Green

  Thinking, Nuts, Battle

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.39, Penguin

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• …Forgive us, O Lord, we acknowledge ourselves as type of the common man, Of the men and women who shut the door and sit by the fire; Who fear the blessing of God, the loneliness of the night of God, the surrender required, the deprivation inflicted; Who fear the injustice of men less than the justice of God; Who fear the hand at the window, the fire in the thatch, the fist in the tavern, the push into the canal, Less than we fear the love of God.

  T. S. Eliot

  Loneliness, Blessing, Night

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.55, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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