#surrender

If you are resolute to go, I will not stop you. But I hope I’m making the right decision. ↗

— Mario Stinger

#surrender #nature

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

The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority. ↗

— Lord Acton

#authority #before #both #country #deny

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

— Isaac Asimov

#been #call #god #ignorance #premature

I find it almost comforting to count calories, because it makes me conscious of what I'm eating. But on Super Bowl Sunday, I thought, 'Surrender to it. It's nacho time.' Then I ate nothing but Doritos all day. ↗

— Kristen Bell

#almost #ate #because #bowl #calories

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

— Tony Blair

#i #our choice #power #say #surrender

It is because the administration is hostile to silver; and thus it is surrendering this country to the Shylocks of the Old World who have made war upon it. ↗

— Richard Parks Bland

#because #country #hostile #made #old

I never believed that surrendering the executive power should be a condition of getting the second term. The second term should stand on its own feet. ↗

— Jim Gilmore

#condition #executive #executive power #feet #getting

To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity. ↗

— Irving Wallace

#conformity #cowardice #easy #more #right

Poor Andy Nave was killed. He refused to surrender and was shot by Dick Fields. I felt sorry as he used to be quite friendly towards me before the war, but it could not be helped. ↗

— Stand Watie

#before #could #felt #fields #friendly