#render

Then, what's the matter?' I wonder, in fact, how many times I have said that or something equal to it to a woman passing palely through my life. What're you thinking? What's made you so quiet? You seem suddenly different. What's the matter? Love me is what this means, of course. Or at least, second best: surrender. Or at the very least, take some time regaling me with why you won't, and maybe by the end you will. ↗

— Richard Ford

#men #relationships #surrender #women #equality

There is never a moment when God is not in control. Relax! He’s got you covered. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#faith-in-god #god #peace #positive-thinking #spirituality

The things we don’t stress tend to turn out best. Trust and let go. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#let-go #letting-go #not-stressing #peace #positive-thinking

No, no. Don't make that face. Every time I propose to you, you make that twisty, unhappy face. It wears on a man's confidence. ↗

— Tessa Dare

#dare #funny #humor #funny

You cannot fulfil God's purposes for your life while focusing on your own plans. ↗

— Rick Warren

#surrender #life

It is easy to use the phrase 'God's will for my life' as an excuse for inaction or even disobedience. ... My hope is that instead of searching for 'God's will for my life' each of us would learn to seek hard after 'the Spirit's leading in my life today.' May we learn to pray for an open and willing heart, to surrender to the Spirit's leading with that friend, child, spouse, circumstance, or decision in our lives right now. ↗

— Francis Chan

#excuse #god-s-will #holy-spirit #inaction-disobedience #making-decisions

The poor wretch, she had given up so much and could yet smile at her trouble. He himself had never surrendered to anything in life - that was what life demanded of you - surrender. For reward it gave you love, this swarthy, skin-deep love that exacted remorseless penalties. ↗

— A.E. Coppard

#love #surrender #life

Now we cannot...discover our failure to keep God's law except by trying our very hardest (and then failing). Unless we really try, whatever we say there will always be at the back of our minds the idea that if we try harder next time we shall succeed in being completely good. Thus, in one sense, the road back to God is a road of moral effort, of trying harder and harder. But in another sense it is not trying that is ever going tobring us home. All this trying leads up to the vital moment at which you turn to God and say, "You must do this. I can't. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#god #surrender #failure

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#confuses #future #inaccessible #past #prejudice

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#been #call #god #ignorance #premature