Quotes About Surrender

The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure….you are above everything distressing.

Surrendering is not the giving up of something. True surrender is the total acceptance of yourself. You're not 'losing' anything in the surrender, the way your society usually means that word. You are not giving up anything in the sense of loss. Surrender means to open up: Open up to your total self; to give in and let go of the things you think you're supposed to be. Just be who you are. It will see you through.

Stop arguing with creation.

Losing a fantasy is much harder than losing a reality.

We don't have control over many things. We're always grasping for it, but in reality, we don't have a lot of control.

I have realized that there is no point making plans, because it'll never end; you're never going to win the world. I thought at one point in time I am going to do that, but you cannot. So I am just enjoying myself.

Calling on you to give up control of the outer world and gladly accept control of your inner relationship with God, devotion is essential for fully realizing your soul's calling.

Reason, I sacrifice you to the evening breeze.

One of the reasons I loved playing quarterback was that I got to call the plays. The cancer put me in a position where I really wasn't in control anymore.

Abundance is a process of letting go; that which is empty can receive.

I don't force things. I can have a wish, and then I let God lead me on the path, bringing me what I need - and always trying to be alert to receive it.

To Jesus Christ I commend my soul; Lord Jesus, receive my soul.

I wrote a book on grace, and grace is a free gift, but to receive the gift you have to have your hands open. And a lot of people don't have their hands open, there's something they're grasping because there's a lot of things to grasp in a prosperous country.

God does not give us salvation because we believe. Our believing is only the normal way of receiving the salvation he freely gives.

I try to recognize that there is no such thing as having it all - and it's impossible to be perfect. You just have to let certain things go.

When I was recording 'Kun-Faaya-Kun,' I did it like I was offering Namaaz.

Checking your ego, abandoning it, letting it go, is a huge part of recovery from addiction.

In the recovery world, it's a higher power that helps you. You have to turn your life over to something greater. Anytime I tried to control my life, I had screwed it up.

The cross is to be our point of reference for every area of our lives all the time.

'I throw my hand up in the air sometimes' is when you don't get your way - when you give up, and you're handing it over.

My fate is in the hands of almighty Allah.

I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.

Time is in God's hands.

Love isn't always about hanging on. Sometimes it's about letting go.