66 quotes found
“Maybe my greater fear should not be fear itself, but what I will lose should I submit to fear.”
“Sadly, in too many cases surrender is having been outrun by fear rather than having run out of heart.”
“We can certainly run from a lot of things. But when we eventually pull up exhausted and entirely out of breath, we are rather shocked to discover that we havent been able to create any distance bet...”
“Far too often, it is at the moment where we finally stand on the very precipice of some great thing that we turn and abandon it, for it is at these seminal moments that fear wins and greatness dies...”
“By choosing comfort we are in the very same decision choosing to miss every great thing in life, and that thought should be anything but comforting.”
“The paralyzing fear of being lost is fed solely by the irrational fear that we will never be found.”
“To seek the praise of men as our motivation is to abandon truly great things, for more often than not truly great things elicit the ire of men far more than they garner their praises.”
“Surrendering is intentionally laying down the power I possess. And have I considered that the power I lay down is often more powerful than that which Im laying it down in front of? Therefore, I wou...”
“If I have never had, or worse yet, I have lost the conviction that life (despite all of the blows it wields and the savagery that it spawns) is nonetheless an incalculable privilege, I will have in...”
“Its strange how what drives us may abandon us midstream, how what tickles our ears with lies one moment may tell us truths that knock us on our emotional ass the next. After all, it is an unbelieva...”
“The impact of music is so great that you'll leave your book and start dancing.”
“Things becomes invisible at the very moment I refuse to grant them importance. And while I am utterly ashamed to admit it, many of the most important things in my life are invisible.”
“Your faith will abandon you in blink of an eye.”
“When men and women who God has created to make a difference in the world, abandon the mandate for their lives and instead, begin to pursue all nonentities of life, God cannot but be frustrated”
“Apathy is giving up when we need to get up.”
“I have drunk the night and swallowed the stars. I am dancing with abandon and singing with rapture. There is not a thing I do not love. There is not a person I have not forgiven. I feel a universe ...”
“When I was younger, I would cling to life because life was at the top of the turning wheel. But like the song of my gypsy-girl, the great wheel turns over and lands on a minor key. It is then that ...”
“Theres not much that I can find in places where there is nothing to find. However, to avoid facing God I find myself spending a lot of time in those very places.”
“The hours tick by as I lie in bed.Memories keep surfacing, tormenting me into unbelievable sadness. I can't bring myself to move. I can't fight the memories that keep filling my thoughts. I stay cu...”
“I'm being pulled under - father and farther from the surface. My lungs continue to scream for air. Panic is building inside me, threatening to combust. I can't break free.Help! I can't break free!I...”
