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“The whole trouble is that we won't let God help us.”

Whole Helping Trouble Letting Go Independence God Help God Help Us

Book:The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more

Source: The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more

“I loved my father, but I was not like him. I never needed to believe the best of people. I took them as they were: two-faced, desperate, kind - perhaps all at once. But to Pa, they were all children of god, poor troubled sheep, who only needed love and an even break. He needed the world to back up what his religion told him about people. And when it came down to a choice between reason and faith, he let go of reason.”

People World Believe Kind Children Two Reason Choices Father Poor Break Needed Letting Go Desperate Sheep Child Of God Needed Love

Book:Far North

Source: Far North

“Too often, we get attention and sympathy by being a victim. If we're invested in someone being our villain, we must love being the victim. We have to let go of both characters in the story.”

Ifs Character Stories Love Is Attention Letting Go Victim Villain

Book:Life's Little Detours: 50 Lessons to Find and Hold onto Happiness

Source: Life's Little Detours: 50 Lessons to Find and Hold onto Happiness

“You must learn, you must let God teach you, that the only way to get rid of your past is to make a future out of it. God will waste nothing.”

Way Past Teach Letting Go Waste Gods Will Our Past Your Past

Book:Sermons: The candle of the Lord, and other sermons

Source: Sermons: The candle of the Lord, and other sermons

“You need not get at it, for you are it. It will get at you, if you give it a chance. Let go your attachment to the unreal and the real will swiftly and smoothly step into its own. Stop imagining yourself being or doing this or that and the realization that you are the source and heart of all will dawn upon you. With this will come great love which is not choice or predilection, nor attachment, but a power which makes all things love-worthy and lovable.”

Ifs Needs Giving Heart Real Choices Chance Steps Source Letting Go All Things Worthy Realization Dawn Attachment Great Love Unreal Lovable Give It A Chance Imagining Yourself

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“We don't have to know,only to be:let go the jumble of worn words,reason and vanity.”

Knows Reason Letting Go Vanity Worn

Author:Hilda Doolittle

“Getting into the character is difficult and letting go of your life and the things that kind of define you, whatever it is in life that's your daily routine because you sort of find yourself in this other life and that's difficult and the other end is difficult.”

Kind Ends Character Difficult Letting Go Finding Yourself Routine Define You Daily Routines

Author:Joaquin Phoenix

“We all lose someone at some point in our lives, But don't ever let go of that smile. Hold on forever, Because that's our final dedication.”

Loses Forever Our Lives Letting Go Finals Dedication

Author:Danny Worsnop

“I’m letting God write my love story because once upon a time, I took control of it and it didn’t work well.”

Writing Wells Stories Letting Go Love Story Once Upon A Time

Author:Nikki Gil

“Meditation is a skilful letting go: gently but with resolution.”

Meditation Letting Go Resolution

Author:Ajahn Sumedho

“What has God given you? Moses had a stick, David had a slingshot, and Paul had a pen. Mother Teresa possessed a love for the poor; Billy Graham, a gift for preaching; and Joni Eareckson Tada, a disability. What did they have in common? A willingness to let God use whatever they had, even when it didn't seem very useful. If you will assess what you have to offer in terms of your time, your treasure, and your talents, you will have a better understanding of how you might uniquely serve.”

Source: The Hole in Our Gospel: What does God expect of Us? The Answer that Changed my Life and Might Just Change the World

“What you want is already here, in the unified field of pure potential. Everything you need to fulfill your greatest desire is already part of your being. But it can’t come out until you align with it, let go of the obstructions to it, and raise your vibration to the level at which it already exists.”

Want Needs Desire Levels Fields Pure Letting Go Raises What You Want Vibrations Unified Obstruction

Author:Derek Rydall

“When you hug someone, never be the first to let go.”

Firsts Letting Go Hug

Author:H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“The thing you can't let go of is gravity. The reality of gravity in writing. If someone says something really mean in a sitcom, and the next wave isn't a reaction to the reality of that, you start losing relatability. In a lot of romantic comedies, they throw out the rules of life.”

Ifs Writing Mean Reality Next Comedy Letting Go Losing Wave Reactions Gravity Really Mean Sitcom Rules Of Life Can't Let Go Relatability

Author:Michael Patrick King

“Some men are like oak leaves -- they don't know when they're dead, but still hang right on; and there are others who let go before anything has really touched them.”

Knows Men Stills Letting Go Touched Oaks

Book:Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son

Source: Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son

“If we could let go of our faith in money, who knows what we might put in its place?”

Ifs Knows Might Money Letting Go

Book:Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion

Source: Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion

“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.”

“But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.”

Source: Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran

“If you're a manager you can't get frustrated and be emotional. You have to continue to steer the ship, you can't let go of the wheel because who knows where it will go then.”

Ifs Knows Emotional Letting Go Ships Managers Wheels Frustrated Steers Can't Let Go

Author:Kirk Gibson

“Modern transcendental idealism, Emersonianism, for instance, also seems to let God evaporate into abstract Ideality. Not a deity in concreto, not a superhuman person, but the immanent divinity in things, the essentially spiritual structure of the universe, is the object of the transcendentalist cult. In that address of the graduating class at Divinity College in 1838 which made Emerson famous, the frank expression of this worship of mere abstract laws was what made the scandal of the performance.”

“A bad marriage is like an electrical thrilling machine: it makes you dance, but you can't let go.”

Marriage Letting Go Machines Thrilling Electrical Can't Let Go Bad Marriage

Book:The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales

Source: The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales

“We lost not only through death, but also by leaving and being left, by changing and letting go and moving on. And our losses include not only our separations and departures from those we love, but our conscious and unconscious losses of romantic dreams, impossible expectations, illusions of freedom and power, illusions of safety -- and the loss of our own younger self, the self that thought it would always be unwrinkled and invulnerable and immortal.”

“It was in reading Tristam Shandy that I noticed how it is primarily men who gravitate towards the game-playing self-reflexive style. There is an alienation from emotion in it, a Nervous Nelly fear of letting go and being "exposed." As an attitude towards life, it betrays a perpetual adolescence. Those who hurled themselves after Derrida were not the most sophisticated but the most pretentious, and least creative members of my generation of academics.”

“The public takes from a writer, or a writing, what it needs and lets the remainder go. but what they take is usually what they need least and what they let go is what they need most.”

Needs Writing Letting Go

Book:Notes of a Dirty Old Man

Source: Notes of a Dirty Old Man

“What right has a man to ask Jesus to forgive him, when his heart is still burning with hatred or festering with grudges against a fellow-creature? Confession, to be of any avail, must let go of its hold on the sin confessed.”

Men Heart Stills Asks Jesus Sin Creatures Letting Go Hatred Fellows Forgiving Burning Confession Grudge Festering

Author:Theodore L. Cuyler

“A disciple asked, "Who is a Master?" The Master replied, "Anyone to whom it is given to let go of the ego. Such a person's life is then a masterpiece.”

Persons Life Is Given Masters Letting Go Ego Disciple Masterpiece

Author:Anthony de Mello

“So I just let go with one hand, and just sort of swung around, looked at the Earth below and the black space above and the sun over my shoulder. And, I mean, it was this incredible, spectacular view.”

Mean Hands Earth Black Space Views Sun Letting Go Incredibles Shoulders Spectacular Just Let Go

Author:Rusty Schweickart

“I can imagine nothing more wonderful than always wanting to keep a man. It's this NOT wanting to keep them, and yet not quite being able to disentangle one's self, never quite having the ruthlessness to stike at the hands on the gunwale with an oar until they let go - that's the horrible thing.”

Men I Can Self Hands Able Imagine Wonderful Letting Go Horrible Never Quit Horrible Things Oar Ruthlessness

Author:Rose Wilder Lane

“Feelings about money -- saving and spending, holding back and letting go -- start very early in our lives. Stingy people have often been forced to give when they were very, very young, when they weren't ready. And generous people have often been really appreciated when they were very young.”

People Giving Feelings Young Money Our Lives Ready Letting Go Spending Saving Generous Appreciated Saving Money Holding Back Stingy Generous People

Author:Fred Rogers

“Lawyers are like that famous vampire-bat, said to exist in Hungary, which seizes on a creature, and never lets go while there is blood left.”

Said Left Blood Creatures Letting Go Lawyer Vampire Bats Hungary Never Let Go

Book:Dorothy Forster

Source: Dorothy Forster

“It's taken me 30 years to get this way, and I don't intend to let go. I work hard, but I play hard, too, and that's the one part of me that nobody sees. But I intend to be around for a long time yet.”

Way Years Long Hard Play Taken Hard Work Letting Go Long Time Play Hard

Author:John Barrowman

“The way to experience ultimate happiness is to let go of all worries and regrets, and to know that being happy is the most satisfying of life's feelings. Reflect back on all the progress in your life and allow the positive, creative and joyous thoughts to outshine and overwhelm any sorrow or grief that may linger in the recesses of your mind. Knowing that disease and disaster are natural parts of life is the key to overcoming adversity with a calm and happy spirit. Happiness is waiting there in front of you. Only you can decide whether or not you choose to experience it. Take this to heart.”

“I do think that's one of the reasons that acting appealed to me so much: the idea of letting go of control in a controlled environment. Being able to go through the range of intense emotions and jump off the cliff, metaphorically, but in a creative way, and in a way where the structure was really solid.”

Thinking Way Ideas Reason Able Acting Emotion Creative Environment Letting Go Structure Intense Range Controlled Cliffs Intense Emotions

Author:Carla Gugino

“So, The Color Purple changed my life. It changed everything about my life because, in that moment of praying and letting go, I really understood the principle of surrender. The principle of surrender is that, after you have done all that you can do, and you've done your best and given it your all, you then have to release it to whatever you call God, or don't call God.”

Done Moments Given Can Do Principles Changed Color Praying Letting Go Understood Surrender Release That Moment Purple Changed My Life

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“Most of the great practitioners of the art of acting know exactly what they're doing; even in the best, most successful moments, when they let go of the awareness of what they are doing, they still, somewhere deep inside their body, know what they're doing. There is a craft.”

Knows Art Stills Moments Body Acting Successful Awareness Letting Go Crafts Deep Inside

Author:Meryl Streep

“You should be a person who can establish the Heavenly Kingdom rather than just the one who can go there. Those who can go to heaven are those who wish to be dependent on God, but those capable of building the Kingdom are those who can let God depend on them.”

Should Persons Heaven Wish Building Depends Letting Go Capable Kingdoms Dependent Heavenly

Author:Sun Myung Moon

“Sometimes I think I'm more comfortable onstage than I am in my own room. When I get onstage, it's kind of like your chance to let go and be something that you're not maybe. It's your time to dream.”

Thinking Kind Sometimes Dream Chance My Own Rooms Like You Letting Go Comfortable

Author:Britney Spears

“Real zeal is standing still and letting God be a bonfire in you.”

Stills Real Letting Go Standing Zeal Standing Still Bonfire

Author:Catherine Doherty

“To be the authentic is to be detached and stand aside from oneself and the work so that the working process can take on an untrammeled life of its own. Labored self-involvement, contrivance, ulterior motives, even the extraordinary facility that one may have, must be let go.”

May Self Process Letting Go Extraordinary Oneself Motive Originality Involvement Facility Detached Ulterior Motive

Author:Joshua L. Goldberg

“Evil has no need to bother with eliminating Good. It's far simpler to let Good fight against itself.”

Needs Fighting Evil Letting Go Bother Eliminating Good Fight

Author:Sergei Lukyanenko

“You must make your choice whether to hold on to some thing which cannot save you, or let go, and fall into the hands of the Lord.”

Hands Choices Fall Lord Letting Go

Author:Ichabod Spencer

“So let God know what you're doing just by doing it - or feel good about yourself. But don't rely on men and women to inspire you to do good - because we will probably often fail you with our own imperfections! We all should be trying to improve ourselves, regardless of how much better off or worse off we are than the person next to us, because we can all get better.”

Knows Men Feels Should Trying Persons Next Failing Inspire Letting Go Men And Women Feel Good Get Better Rely About Yourself Imperfection Better Off God Knows

Author:Ysabella Brave

“Faith is a state of openness or trust...In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all. Instead they are holding tight. But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to the truth, whatever it might turn out to be.”

Persons Ideas Matter States Might Certain Faith Turns Universe Attitude Letting Go Openness Fanatics

Author:Shunryu Suzuki

“Nobody likes to let go of the ego- it is so precious to everyone. However, once you have attained a state of egolessness, the world won't disappear, as you may think it will. The world will continue, but a change takes place within you. Something is uncovered. You start seeing everything with the wonder and innocence of a child.”

Thinking World May Children States Wonder Seeing Letting Go Ego Insight Disappear Likes Innocence Within You

Book:Awaken Children Vol. 8

Source: Awaken Children Vol. 8

“Let go the lure The striving to unmake; Behold the truth Whenever heart may ache There is a glory In a great mistake.”

Heart May Mistake Letting Go Glory Strive Ache Lure Great Mistakes

Author:Nathalia Crane

“When you come to the place where you can't do anything else, you must stand still and believe... When you can't do anything, let God do it all.”

Believe Stills Letting Go

Book:Always True: God's 5 Promises When Life Is Hard

Source: Always True: God's 5 Promises When Life Is Hard

“Heartbreak is our indication of sincerity: in a love relationship, in a work, in trying to learn a musical instrument, in the attempt to shape a better more generous self. Heartbreak is the beautifully helpless side of love and affection and is just as much an essence and emblem of care as the spiritual athlete's quick but abstract ability to let go... But heartbreak may be the very essence of being human, of being on the journey from here to there, and of coming to care deeply for what we find along the way.”

“The secret to creative freedom is letting go of our habitual certainities.”

Secret Creative Letting Go Habitual Creative Freedom

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Life teaches you the art of letting go in every event. When you have learnt to let go, you will be joyful and as you start being joyful, more will be given to you.”

Art Given Teach Events Letting Go Art Is Joyful Being Joyful Life Teaches

Author:Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

“COURAGE isn't an absence of fear. It is doing what you are afraid to do, letting go of the familiar and forging ahead into new territory. What I have discovered is that the best leaders have the courage to act - are willing to take the risk, make the statement, point the way, lead the way - when others hesitate out of fear. Effective leadership requires the ability to stand up, stand out, and the conviction to do it. I have never known a successful leader that was not courageous.”