To oppression, plundering and
To oppression, plundering and abandonment, we respond with life. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Abandonment
Waiting for God is
Waiting for God is not laziness. Waiting for God is not the abandonment of effort. Waiting for God means, first, activity under command; second, readiness for any new command that may come; third, the ability to do nothing until the command is given. G. Campbell Morgan
You initially become funny
You initially become funny as a kid because you’re looking for attention and love. Psychologists think that’s all to do with mother abandonment. I think John Cleese has his depressions, and Terry Gilliam’s the same. All of us together make one completely insane person. Eric Idle
The genius of happiness
The genius of happiness is still so rare. To possess it means to approach life with the humility of a beggar, but to treat it with the proud generosity of a prince; to bring to its totality the deep understanding of a great poet and to each of its moments the abandonment and ingenuousness of … Read more
The wind kicks in
The wind kicks in stronger, branches clatter. Or maybe skeletons. Bones of abandonment. Ghosts that will never be. Ellen Hopkins
The world looks for
The world looks for happiness through self-assertion. The Christian knows that joy is found in self-abandonment. ‘If a man will let himself be lost for My sake,’ Jesus said, ‘he will find his true self. Elisabeth Elliot
My most earnest of
My most earnest of all pleas to singles is abandonment of the self, surrender to Christ of all unfulfilled longings, an unequivocal willingness to receive whatever God assigns, and a determination to practice the sacrificial principle of Isaiah 58:10-11. Life becomes not only far simpler, but surprisingly joyful and free. Elisabeth Elliot
The early symptoms of
The early symptoms of the disease [California Curse], which break out almost on arrival in Hollywood, are a sense of exaggerated self-importance and self-centeredness which naturally alienates all old friends. Next comes a great desire for and belief in the importance of money above all else, a loss of the normal sense of humor and … Read more
In the marginalia …
In the marginalia … we talk only to ourselves; we therefore talk freshly – boldly – originally – with abandonment – without conceit. Edgar Allan Poe
Spiritual power comes out
Spiritual power comes out of inward fellowship with God and abandonment to his purposes. E. Stanley Jones