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Surrender Quotes by Thomas Merton
- Our real journey in life is interior; It is a matter of growth, deepening, and of an ever greater surrender to the creative action of…
- Self-conquest is really self-surrender. Yet before we can surrender ourselves we must become ourselves. For no one can give up what he does not possess.
- The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of contemporary violence. To allow oneself to be carried away…
- 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…
- Surrender your own poverty and acknowledge your nothingness to the Lord. Whether you understand it or not, God loves you, is present in you, lives…
- 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…
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- A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He… — C.S. Lewis
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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… — Michael Ian Black
- When love is accompanied with deep intimacy, it raises us to the highest level of human experience. In this exalted space, we… — Leo Buscaglia
- If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves,… — Albert Einstein
- The whole art of allowing the truth to take possession of you is of being vulnerable, of being open, of being in… — Rajneesh