Quotes About Surrender

Let God have you, and let God love you - and don't be surprised if your heart begins to hear music you've never heard and your feet learn to dance as never before.

I gave up my music because I had received from it all I had to receive. To serve God one must sacrifice the dearest thing, and I sacrificed my music, the dearest thing to me.

Given the chance, i'll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season's over.

I couldn't believe how good Jimi Hendrix was It was a really difficult thing for me to deal with, but I just had to surrender and say, 'This is fantastic.'

As an improvising musician, I am not in the music business, I am not in the creativity business; I am in the surrender business.

We can do nothing ourselves; God must do it. To speak to Him thus is easier by nature for woman than for man because a natural desire lives in her to give herself completely to someone.

God, give me by Your grace what You give to dogs by nature.

The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.

even if you do the best you can in all things, your human nature must often fall short; so entrust yourself to God's goodness, for his goodness is greater than your failures.

Addiction is not something we can simply take care of by applying the proper remedy. For it is in the very nature of addiction to feed on our attempts to master it.

A butterfly flitting from flower to flower ever remains mine, I lose the one that is netted by me.

Accepting what we're given is a practice in being present to everything beyond us that lets us become intimate with the nature of life.

The deeper you surrender to existence, life, nature, the more loving, more understanding, more insightful you become.

Nature gives all, without reservation, and loses nothing; man or woman, grasping all, loses everything.

man is free, in so far as he has the power of contradicting himself and his essential nature. Man is free even from his freedom; that is, he can surrender his humanity

Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-house of the New World which the census-taker visits, and summons the savage there to surrender.

Love is what stands in the way of self discovery, try not to find, it will find you.

In the end, having no compass for his desires, he yielded to his nature.

nature can offer you the biggest gifts only if you are ready to accept.

Don't push, don't resist. Let it happen. Nature will align everything.

Mothers are only human, you turn it over to God and then you just wing it.

It reminds me that we are born innocent but ignorant, and that to remedy the second of these conditions we inevitably surrender the first.

I think patience is the best thing to try to embrace.

Patience is seeking help only from Allah.