Quotes about Resignation
I need no longer always manage and muster support for my "cause."
— Henri Nouwen
He fell facedown and prayed, "My Father! If it is possible, let this cup pass from Me. Yet not as I will, but as You will." Matthew 26:39
— Beth Moore
When the will of God crosses the will of man, somebody has to die.
— Elisabeth Elliot
If I go back home to Wittenberg, I'll lie down in a coffin and give the maggots a fat doctor to eat.
— Martin Luther
The slave should be resigned to his lot, in obeying his master he is obeying God.
— St. John Chrysostom
hope and dreams, but has now plateaued, where affections have cooled and intimacy has faded. Rather than name the problem, face their pain, and ask for help, the couple resign themselves to a life of mediocrity, living together as intimate strangers.
— John Ortberg
No woman who has not learned to master herself can be trusted to submit willingly to her husband. And that word willingly means that she does not merely resign herself to something she cannot avoid. It means that by an act of her own will she gives herself.
— Elisabeth Elliot
True freedom from fear consists of totally resigning one's life into the hands of the Lord.
— David Wilkerson
Yes, I know that You will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.
— Job 30:23
Henceforth I flie not Death, nor would prolong Life much, bent rather how I may be quit Fairest and easiest of this combrous charge, Which I must keep till my appointed day Of rendring up. MICHAEL to him repli'd. Nor love thy Life, nor hate; but what thou livst Live well, how long or short permit to Heav'n:
— John Milton
As the world is wearie of me so am I of it.
— John Knox
Nothing concentrates one's mind so much as the realization that one is going to be hanged in the morning!
— Samuel Johnson