Best 373 quotes in «surrender quotes» category

You think I'm giving up. I'm not. I'm giving in.

You’ve got a choice: ...you can just give in. You can give your jailers what they want. Switch off another light and in the ocean of darkness bow your head and cry. You can despair for your kids, and they can despair for you. But what does this choice give you? Have you any great new happiness now? What does your unhappiness give to your children? Why did you make this choice? Why did you walk into the trap of captivity?

You want to become a better person? Just give thanks. Give thanks for all of it.

You will achieve what you want to achieve, only if you can cope with the theory of altruism.

You will not mock me—and you will let me finish. I have owned and lost a kingdom, and I have battled death. I have been through all that, and I will not chase after you like some lovesick poet spouting verse. If you wish to call me yours, then you will have to act as if you are mine. On the front of surrender, there is no middle ground.

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

Apocalypse is a frame of mind." [Nicodemus] said then. "A belief. A surrender to inevitability. It is a despair for the future. It is the death of hope.

Army requests immediate permission to surrender in order to save lives of remaining troops.

As before, there is a great silence, with no end in sight. The writer surrenders, listening.

Ask God for the grace to live for Him and continue to live in Him. Right now, surrender it all to Him.

As soon as we surrender the principle that the state should not interfere in any questions touching on the individuals mode of life, we end by regulating and restricting the latter down to the smallest details.

A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.

After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.

All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.

Anyone with the maturity to surrender entirely to God is mature enough for God to use.

As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn't cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older.

At the very point of vulnerability is where the surrender takes place-that is where the god enters. The god comes through the wound.

Bibi Netanyahu, froze the settlements and offered to go toward a two-state solution. The Palestinians didn't take him up on it. Historically, we have had a series of these offers. And the settlements themselves are not the keystone here. It seems to me myopic and bizarre that at the last moment, the Barack Obama administration would surrender the whole balanced array of policies that are obstacles to peace and focus on the one that is most detrimental to Israel.

Brokenness is the shattering of my self-will - the absolute surrender of my will to the will of God.

Buddha says if you surrender the ego, if you surrender yourself, you come in a harmony with the law and everything starts happening on its own. You have but to surrender. If you are ready to disappear, you will be full of the law and the law will take care.

Dear God, I surrender this thought to you, for I would see the miracle that lies behind it. Amen.

Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender

Don't get upset with your imperfections. Surrender to the Power of God's Love, which is greater than our weakness.

Don't go empty handed when going to a temple or to see a spiritual master. Offer something as a symbol of surrender, even if it be a mere flower.

Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.

From Mary we learn to surrender to God's Will in all things. From Mary we learn to trust even when all hope seems gone. From Mary we learn to love Christ her Son and the Son of God!

Every genuine expression of love grows out of a consistent and total surrender to God.

Every time I surrender to stress, aren’t I advertising the unreliability of God?

French troops arrived in Afghanistan last week, and not a minute too soon. The French are acting as advisers to the Taliban, to teach them how to surrender properly.

God grants us an uncommon life to the degree we surrender our common one.

Grace is ever present. All that is necessary is that you surrender to it.

God's delight is received upon surrender, not awarded upon conquest.

Here's a summary for the time or attention challenged: Never surrender freedom for laws that can't affect criminals; they disobey laws for a living.

If a crisis has come to you on any front, surrender your will to Jesus absolutely and irrevocably.

I'd be a fool to surrender, when I know I can be a contender. And if everyone's a contender, then everyone could be a winner.

Individually and collectively, we are shifting from a position of fear into surrender and trust of the intuitive. The power of the feminine energy is on the rise in our world.

If I'm gonna go down I'm gonna do it with style. You won't hear me surrender, you won't hear me confess cause you've left me with nothing but I have worked with less.

If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.

It is not enough ... simply to surrender oneself brainlessly to love, when it knocks at the door, one must also calculate because of later life, which does sometimes follow.

In my view dictators do not surrender. They have to be well and truly defeated.

I say to the Taliban: surrender the terrorists; or surrender power. It's your choice.

I slowly surrender to the child in me who can't say goodbye.

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.

Intercourse is an assertion of mastery, one that announces his own higher caste and proves it upon a victim who is expected to surrender, serve, and be satisfied.

It is in many circumstances a troubling thing to belong to the advanced class of a backward nation. One surrenders coherence and begins a difficult process of choice which ends, often, in an eclectic idiosyncrasy.

It's your life - but only if you make it so. The standards by which you live must be your own standards, your own values, your own convictions in regard to what is right and wrong, what is true and false, what is important and what is trivial. When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else . . . you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.

It's hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender

I would surrender my being to see you whole once more.

I was a slave to something he believed to be silly and superstitious: the idea that all life was worth defending and that nothing justified surrender to the forces of destruction.

I was against it on two counts. First, the Japanese were ready to surrender, and it wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing. Second, I hated to see our country be the first to use such a weapon.