When we receive with an entire and perfect resignation the afflictions which God sends us they become for us favors and benefits; because conformity to the will of God is a gain far superior to all temporal advantages.
Resignation is what kills people. Once they've rejected resignation, humans gain the privilege of making humanity their footpath.
Every person has the power to make others happy. Some do it simply by entering a room others by leaving the room. Some individuals leave trails of gloom; others, trails of joy. Some leave trails of hate and bitterness; others, trails of love and harmony. Some leave trails of cynicism and pessimism; others trails of faith and optimism. Some leave trails of criticism and resignation; others trails of gratitude and hope. What kind of trails do you leave?
Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.
A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right minded man without forethought or with reserve.
I want to feel my own nothingness, I want to give myself up in absolute resignation to God, to lie prostrate and passive at His feet, with no other disposition in my heart than that of merging my will into His will, and no other language in my mouth than that of prayer for the perfecting of His strength in my weakness.
Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation.
We wait for the fulfillment of our desires. We wait with hope, apathy, resignation, belief. We become despondent, elated. We wait
What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
It seems that nothing ever gets to going good till there's a few resignations
I refuse to accept Pluto's resignation as a planet.
Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts.
I think my resignation was the only way to avoid bloodshed.
What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket.
I will not resign because my resignation will not resolve anything.
I myself am a person who has never resigned myself, who is absolutely never resigned, who can’t imagine it at all. I simply observe, and I observe in so many people, and often very quickly, a resignation that terrifies me, that’s it.
The death of JFK to the resignation of Richard Nixon marked a great turning point in American life.
Obedience and resignation are our personal offerings upon the altar of duty.
According to the papers, I'm miserable, alienated, and on the brink of resignation. But that's simply not where I am.