#surrender

The reason why many are still troubled, still seeking, still making little forward progress is because they haven't yet come to the end of themselves. We're still trying to give orders, and interfering with God's work within us. ↗

— A.W. Tozer

#surrender #trouble

There is no such thing as helplessness. It's just another word for giving up. ↗

— Jefferson Smith

#fantasy #helplessness #hope #persistence #surrender

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left? ↗

— Jim Carrey

#better #death #dreams #give #left

When God requires us to surrender one dream, it’s because He wants to hand us a bigger and better one. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#destiny #dreams #faith #faith-in-god #faith-in-yourself

We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

#controlling #dreams #escape #free #into

You're going to have to surrender a little bit to the contrivance of how Freddy and Jason get together. ↗

— Robert Englund

#contrivance #freddy #get #get together #going

I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender. ↗

— Brian Eno

#actually #atheist #chance #evangelical #gives

We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence. ↗

— Remy de Gourmont

#learn #less #live #more #more and more

No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works. ↗

— Ulysses S. Grant

#immediate #immediately #move #other #propose

I was being called to surrender the very citadel of my self. I was completely in the dark. I did not really know what repentance was or what I was required to repent of. It was indeed the turning point of my life. ↗

— Bede Griffiths

#called #citadel #completely #dark #did