Leave to Heaven the measure and the choice.
When we receive with an entire and perfect resignation the afflictions which God sends us they become for us favors and benefits; because conformity to the will of God is a gain far superior to all temporal advantages.
Obedience and resignation are our personal offerings upon the altar of duty.
A man must take the fat with the lean.
God often delays the conclusion of a holy endeavor so that those involved in it might merit its grace by the length of the work, their patience, and their prayers. This is why I beg you not to grow weary in yours. Although He may delay, He will reveal that it is pleasing to Him, if it is done, nevertheless, in a spirit of resignation regarding the outcome.
I refuse to accept Pluto's resignation as a planet.
O Lord, I do most cheerfully commit all unto Thee.
Resignation is a daily suicide.
We wait for the fulfillment of our desires. We wait with hope, apathy, resignation, belief. We become despondent, elated. We wait
It is remarkable with what Christian fortitude and resignation we can bear the suffering of other folks.
To will what God doth will, that is the only science That gives us any rest.
There are no dark sinister reasons for my resignation.
A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right minded man without forethought or with reserve.
Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.
Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it.
I want to feel my own nothingness, I want to give myself up in absolute resignation to God, to lie prostrate and passive at His feet, with no other disposition in my heart than that of merging my will into His will, and no other language in my mouth than that of prayer for the perfecting of His strength in my weakness.
I think my resignation was the only way to avoid bloodshed.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms.
The doctrine of Necessity or Destiny is the doctrine of Toleration.
Resignation is just simply out of the question.
