Quotes About Surrender

Jesus was always at the wheel, but he's not particularly cautious. In fact, he takes hairpin turns at seventy miles per hour if you want to know the truth of it. But as he is God, I've always figured he knows how to drive better than I do.

Because the thing about love is that we can't control whether we get it, but we can control whether we give it.

But I've come to believe ... to think ... well, all God asks of us is to do our best, from morning until night. He does not expect us to do things that only He can accomplish, only what we've been given to do, and to trust Him with the rest.

Every time I give in to concern about tomorrow, even my next hour, I rob this hour, this day of strength, peace. The Maker holds all my days. Do I trust him with them, or not?

Before I ever made it "official" by saying a prayer or walking down the aisle or kneeling at an altar, I was on fire for the Lord.

We plan our days, but we don't control them.

decision you make in life has benefits and consequences. Sometimes you just have to go on faith, and even that comes at a price. It means you have to give up the idea that you're the one in charge of the universe.

The most important skill in life is to learn the acceptance of that which you have not planned for yourself.

You got to remember that when things are out of our hands, that doesn't mean they're not in God's.

we cannot change where God has put us. If we are to bloom at all, we must bloom where we have been planted.

quit fighting the sails and let the wind move the boat-drift on faith for a while.

you don't have any choice but to quit fighting the sails and let the wind move the boat—drift on faith for a while.

Living, really living, wasn't about clinging to control but about giving it away.

when things are out of our hands, that doesn't mean they're not in God's.

What can't be understood and neatly sewn up must simply be let go, not in the way of giving up, but in the way of understanding who is really in control of it.

The most important skill in life is to learn the acceptance of that which you have not planned for yourself. Discontent, if watered even the slightest bit, spreads like choke weed. It will smother the garden if you let it,

Because this wasn't about the plans she made but the ones God had in store for her. Knowing she could trust him with her future was better than any list she could make, any task she could check off.

Your brakes have gone out. May as well pretend to enjoy the ride.

There is a time to struggle to achieve what we want and a time to give up any desire, a time to be strong and a time to surrender one's strength.

Love has come and it flows like blood beneath my skin, through my veins. It has emptied me of my self and filled me with the Beloved. The Beloved has penetrated every cell of my body. Of myself there remains only a name, everything else is Him. (Rumi)

To be a Sufi is to give up all worries and there is no worse worry than yourself. When you are occupied with self you are separated from God. The way to God is but one step: the step out of yourself. (Abu Sa'id Ibn Abi-l-khayr)

When the Sufi Abû Sa'îd ibn Abî-l-Khayr was asked what Sufism entailed he replied: "Whatever you have in your mind—forget it; whatever you have in your hand—give it; whatever is to be your fate—face it!

We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.

Total surrender to the demands of the human spirit: be attentive, be intelligent, be reasonable, be responsible, be in love.