Pastoral Resources

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.

God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.

No man is fit to be a Senator... unless he is willing to surrender his political life for great principle.

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

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others.

The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.

A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me.

I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.

It was necessary to bluff the Japanese camp commanders, with whatever authority I could muster, that I had come officially to ensure that the surrender terms were being complied with and that living conditions for the POWs were being immediately improved.

As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it.

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.

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

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

My golf is woeful but I will never surrender.

Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.