Surrender Quotes

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The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrender. There must be a willingness to die to the lower part of… — Fulton J. Sheen
Many married women who have deliberately spurned the "hour" of childbearing are unhappy and frustrated. They never discovered the joys of marriage because they refused… — Fulton J. Sheen
Reason lost the battle, and all I could do was surrender and accept I was in love. — Paulo Coelho
Sometimes it seemed that the human heart, this side of Eden, feared life more than death, light more than darkness, freedom more than surrender. — Dean Koontz
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… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
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… — Paul Brunton
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… — Thomas Merton
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… — Anais Nin
It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories. — W. Somerset Maugham
It's a bit like the feeling I get when I'm standing on a cliff or high building, looking down at a suicidal drop. I start… — Darren Shan
Something amazing happens when we surrender and just love. We melt into another world, a realm of power already within us. The world changes when… — Marianne Williamson
Love isn't just about feeling sure of the other person, knowing what he would give up for you. It's knowing with certainty what you are… — Robin Hobb
Surrender your expectations. Surrender your doubts. Surrender your fears. Surrender your strengths. Surrender your anger. Surrender your control. — Yasmine Galenorn
Anderson sent me to give you this he said. I believe the subtext was kiss and makeup. This time I was sure I made a… — Jenna Black
Love or hatred calls for self-surrender. He cuts a fine figure, the warm-blooded, prosperous man, solidly entrenched in his well-being, who one fine day surrenders… — Jean-Paul Sartre
For Isildur would not surrender it to Elrond and CÃrdan who stood by. They counselled him to cast it into the fire of Orodruin night… — J.R.R. Tolkien
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angles, but am note nice, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.… — Benjamin Carson
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… — Gregory Maguire
At the heart of the gospel is a God who deliberately surrenders to the wild, irresistable power of love. — Philip Yancey
One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater. — Marquis de Sade

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