surrender Quotes

“You had to give yourself up to it spiritually; you had to surrender yourself absolutely to it. When you were done and walked away from the boat, you had to feel that you had left a piece of yourself behind in it forever, a bit of your heart... And a lot of life is like that too, the parts that really matter anyway.”

“Don’t surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn’t true anymore.”

“Don’t surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn’t true anymore.”

“If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.”

“You cannot attain happiness; it attains you—but only after you surrender everything else.”

“We’ll still give them what they want, of course. But we’ll also give them what they don’t know they want.”

“Prayer, at its most basic level, was surrender. Like Jesus in the garden, saying, “Not My will, but Yours, be done.” The ironic thing was, when a person surrendered their will, they got God’s, and then they received what they were really looking for all along. This was what she believed.”

“Mutants surrender now--or be destroyed! Blam!”

I have been so overwhelmed by the many storms that have broken over my head, that I am become passive in the hands of the Almighty, like a sparrow in the talons of an eagle.

“It’s late, it’s time to go! I am going at once to give myself up. But I don’t know why I am going to give myself up.”