Quotes About Surrender

Douglas, you wouldn't by any chance know the Korean phrase for 'You have three minutes to surrender,' would you?" "Sampun inae? hangpokhae.

What has he found who has lost God? And what has he lost who has found God?

If that was the case, I had to accept it. I had to trust my mother's words: God will get you out in His time.

Baby, be quiet! You're not in control anymore. God is in control. And God is going to get you out in His own time." The power of her words knocked me back. What did my mother just tell me?

To be a Sufi is to detach from fixed ideas and from preconceptions; and not to try to avoid what is your lot.

I will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages. Rabia

If you give what can be takes, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Take what is given: Give what cannot be taken.

Saying of the Prophet Death Die before your death.

Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.

These lecture provide material for the consideration of common factors, in theory and in development, from the viewpoint of the idea of surrender to the Divine Will, reviewing some aspects of the interplay between Christians and Moslems, and introducing material from and about Sufis.

And there are many people, both Moslem and Christian, who have a good grasp of each others0 conceptions of surrender to God an other principles. But the widespread existence of bias, misinformation and lack of knowledge (…) militate against the effectiveness of dialogue, (…) by the most subtle and one of the most effective of instruments, the subconscious, almost the subliminal, introduction of hostility.

The important place held by Jesus among the world's six hundred million Moslems... and the agreement of both religions about the necessity for surrender to God as the means of salvation, thus makes it comparatively easy for a Moslem to address himself to Christians: the sympathy and the history are already there.

Do not dwell upon whether you will put yourself into the hands of a teacher. You are always in his hands.

He is the completed Man who, from his completeness, performs, with his Mastership, the work of a slave.

Trying to force something is the best way to stop it from happening.

Sirri al-Siqati, que murió en 867 de la era cristiana, dijo: La verdadera sabiduría es el no apego al yo y la devoción a la verdad.

No le des vueltas al asunto de si vas a ponerte o no en las manos de un maestro. Siempre estás en sus manos.

Entregamos nuestra vida a las cosas y luego nos sorprendemos de haberla perdido

Cierra los ojos y a obscuras piérdete bajo el follaje rojo de tus párpados. Húndete en esas espirales del sonido que zumba y cae y suena allá, remoto hacia el sitio del tímpano, como una catarata ensordecida. En esa sombra líquida del sueño moja tu desnudez; abandona tu forma, espuma que no se sabe quién dejó en la orilla; piérdete en ti, infinita, en tu infinito ser, mar que se pierde en otro mar; olvídate y olvídame. -Octavio Paz

all the bad things I do will go up in smoke and so will I

God isn't like a genie in a bottle who will do whatever we ask. Prayer is about talking with God, getting to know him, learning to love the things he loves. He's preparing us to be fit citizens for the kingdom to come, and his goal isn't to give us everything we want in this world. Don't you want whatever God knows is best?

I fled Him, down the nights and down the days; I fled Him, down the arches of the years; I fled Him, down the labyrinthine ways Of my own mind; and in the mist of tears. —"The Hound of Heaven" (FRANCIS THOMPSON, 1859–1907)

God wants to be the most important thing in our lives. He wants to be our first passion, our first thought in the morning. He wants to be what gives our life purpose.

Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.' When we're delighting in him, our desires come in line with his, not his with what we want.