Surrender Quotes - Page 16

• Some to the fascination of a name, Surrender judgment hoodwinked.

  William Cowper

  Names, Fascination, Judgment

  William Cowper (1835). “The Poems of William Cowper ...”, p.282

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• In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself; when consciously he makes himself the mere tongue of the occasion and the hour, and says what cannot but be said. Hence the term "abandonment" to describe the self- surrender of the orator. Not his will, but the principle on which he is horsed, the great connection and crisis of events, thunder in the ear of the crowd.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Self, Triumph

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.25, Harvard University Press

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• In every union roles are assumed, some traditional, some not. My husband used to pay his own bills, I used to call my own repairman. But as marriages progress, you surrender areas of your own competence, often without even knowing it.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Husband, Knowing, Progress

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• Nothing in the world is as fearsome as a bloody, battered opponent who will never surrender.

  Gerry Spence

  World, Opponents, Bloody

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• Self control is about being in charge of the direction our lives are taking. Now for the paradox: We get control of our lives, ultimately, not by will power but by surrender.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Self, Paradox, Will Power

  Lewis B. Smedes (2002). “A Life of Distinction: What It Takes to Live with Courage, Honesty, and Gratitude”, Shaw

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• Surrender is not a weakness, or state of inaction, but rather a powerful state of pure energy; the energy of becoming your true purpose.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Powerful, Weakness, Energy

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• Great faith doesn't come out of great effort, but out of great surrender.

  Bill Johnson

  Effort, Great Effort, Great Faith

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• It isn't pleasant to surrender to the hegemony of a nation which is still wild and primitive, and to concede the absolute superiority of its customs and institutions, science and technology, literature and art. Must one sacrifice so much in the name of the unity of mankind?

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Art, Sacrifice, Technology

  "The Captive Mind" by Czeslaw Milosz, as translated by Jane Zielonko, 1990.

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• Death is not something to be feared, but rather anticipated. Of course, we are not to precipitate it ourselves, as suicide is surrender and defeat of the worst kind. But if each of us can have the patience to wait and die in God's time, when His time has come for us, that's the day we're going to be the most thankful. We're going to arrive in our heavenly home and see that it was really worth it all!

  David Berg

  Suicide, Home, Waiting

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• Surrender is the path to freedom through our unique authenticity, where we experience the flow of life not through the narrow lens of the mind, but through the vast refuge of the heart.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Life, Freedom, Heart

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• My responsibility is to obey, to surrender my heart and to yield myself to the will of God. It is in the process of obedience that we gain understanding. You can’t get the peace that passes understanding until you give up your right to understand.

  Bill Johnson

  Giving Up, Responsibility, Heart

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• Evolve your understanding of success from the outer realm of control, materialism, and ego, to the inner realm of surrender, spirituality, and compassion.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Success, Compassion, Understanding

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• The master tools of success are invitation, patience, time, gentleness, cooperation, and surrender.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Success, Tools, Cooperation

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• Sometimes what seems like surrender isn't surrender at all. It's about what's going on in your own hearts.

  Nicholas Evans

  Heart, Sometimes, Seems

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• Surrender your whole being to a note, and gravity disappears...wi th one chord

  Carlos Santana

  Disappear, Notes, Chords

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• Faith is not the result of striving. It is the result of surrender.

  Bill Johnson

  Strive, Results

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• [Peace] is the highest and most strenuous act of the soul, but an entirely harmonious act, in which all our powers and affections are blending in a beautiful proportion, and sustain and perfect one another. It is more than the silence after storms. It is as the concord of all melodious sounds ... an alliance of love with all beings, a sympathy with all that is pure and happy, a surrender of every separate will and interest, a participation of the spirit and life of the universe.... This is peace, and the true happiness of [humanity].

  William Ellery Channing

  Beautiful, Perfect One, Silence

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• America has many glories. The last one that she would wish to surrender is the glory of the men who have served her in war. While such devotion lives, the nation is secure. Whatever dangers may threaten from within or without, she can view them calmly. Turning to her veterans, she can say: 'These are our defenders. They are invincible. In them is our safety.'

  Calvin Coolidge

  War, Men, Views

  "America and the War". Speech by Calvin Coolidge, en.wikisource.org. 1920.

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• Commit yourself then to God! He will be your guide. He Himself will travel with you, as we are told He did with the Israelites, to bring them step by step across the desert to the promised land. Ah! what will be your blessedness, if you will but surrender yourself into the hands of God, permitting Him to do whatever He will, not according to your desires, but according to His own good pleasure?

  Francois Fenelon

  Trust, Hands, Land

  Francois Fenelon (2014). “Spiritual Progress”, p.39, Lulu.com

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• The spineless pussy willows in Ottawa are actually helping to condition the Canadian public to accept the surrender of our country, which American forces were unable to accomplish in 1776 and 1812.

  Paul Hellyer

  Country, Pussy, Ottawa

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• Do work of all kinds with a mind that is void and to the voidness surrender all of the fruits.

  Buddhadasa

  Mind, Void, Fruit

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• I will surrender to the moment today.

  Karan Casey

  Today, Moments

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• Revenge in the hands of your enemies is a loaded gun. You can beg them for mercy, wave the white flag of surrender, but the only true elixir for the vitriol they bestow is a measure of hatred dispensed of your own.

  Addison Webster Moore

  Revenge, Gun, White

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• I have repeatedly stressed that the selfish impulses of man constitute a much less historic danger than his integrative tendencies. To put it in the simplest way: the individual who indulges in an excess of aggressive self-assertiveness incurs the penalties of society-he outlaws himself, he contracts out of the hierarchy. The true believer, on the other hand, becomes more closely knit into it; he enters the womb of his church, or party, or whatever the social holon to which he surrenders his identity.

  Arthur Koestler

  Selfish, Party, Men

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• Americans have only the dimmest notion of what their constitutional freedoms are - and what it took to get them...[and] the willingness to surrender what we're supposed to be fighting for is a recurring part of our history.

  Nat Hentoff

  Fighting, Notion, Supposed To Be

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