Persistence is a characteristic to which success invariably surrenders.
Our task, then always, is to challenge the apparent forms of reality-that is, the fixed manner and values of the few, and to struggle with it until it reveals its mad, vari-implicated chaos, its false face, and so on until it surrenders its insight, its truth.
It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated. . . it is finished when it surrenders.
The words of truth are always paradoxical. To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.
When virtue is pictured as innocence and innocence equated with childlikeness, the implication is obviously that knowledge and experience are no longer media of goodness, but have become in themselves contaminating. This is a very despairing outlook, in its way as black as Augustine's original sin, for it supposes that original goodness will in all likelihood be defiled. . . It surrenders the attempt to represent virtue in a mature phase.
If you don't surrender to God, don't think you don't surrender. Everybody surrenders -- to something.
A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
As the river surrenders itself to the ocean, what is inside me moves inside you.
You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest.
As before, there is a great silence, with no end in sight. The writer surrenders, listening.
. . . so in love the heart surrenders itself entirely to the one being known how to touch it. That being is not selected but recognized and obeyed.
Passion pursues; love surrenders.
Truth gathers itself spotless and unhurt after all our surrenders and concealments and partisanship; never hurt by the treachery or ruin of its best defenders, whether Luther, or William Penn, or St. Paul.
Rational assessments too often led to rational surrenders.
A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders himself without reservation to the temporal claims of a nation, or a party, or a class is rendering to Caesar that which, of all things, most emphatically belongs to God: himself.
Blood sin and desecration of the race are the original sin in this world and the end of a humanity which surrenders to it.
I always felt that a governor surrenders a certain amount of privacy. And I came to accept that.
To praise is to praise how one surrenders to the emptiness.
The great soul surrenders itself to fate.
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.
