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Resignation Quotes


These are some of the best 'Resignation' quotations and sayings.


A wise man cares not for what he cannot have.

All the precepts of Christianity agree to teach and command us to moderate our passions, to temper our affections toward all things below; to be thankful for the possession, and patient under the loss whenever he that gave shall see fit to take away.

All we have is the Almighty's, and shall not God have his own when he calls for it?

Demand not that events should happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.

Every man has his chain and clog, only it is looser and lighter to one than to another; and he is more at ease who takes it up and carries it than he who drags it.

It is a higher exhibition of Christian manliness to be able to bear trouble than to get rid of it.

It is not where we have gathered up our brighter hopes, that the dawn of happiness breaks. It is not where we have glanced our eye with affright, that we find the deadliest gloom. What should this teach us? To bow to the great and only source of light, and live humbly and with confiding resignation.

No cloud can overshadow a true Christian but his faith will discern a rainbow upon it.

O Lord, I do most cheerfully commit all unto Thee.

Remember you are but an actor in a drama of such sort as the author chooses. - If it be his pleasure that you should act a poor man, see that you act it well; or a cripple, or a ruler, or a private citizen. For this is your business, to act well the given part; but to choose it belongs to another.

Resignation is putting God between ourselves and our troubles.

Submission to God is the only balm that can heal the wounds he gives.

There is but one way to tranquillity of mind and happiness; let this, therefore, be always ready at hand with thee, both when thou wakest early in the morning, and all the day long, and when thou goest late to sleep, to account no external things thine own, but commit all these to God.

We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.

Welcome death, quoth the rat, when the trap fell.