Quotes About Surrender

God's purpose is not to perfect me to make me a trophy in His showcase; He is getting me to the place where He can use me. Let Him do what He wants.

God, either you come down here tonight and touch me, or I'm going to die and come up there and touch you.

Say Bismillah, In the name of God, as the shaykh does with a knife when he offers an animal. Bismillah your old self to find your real name. - Jalaluddin al

God gives where he finds empty hands.

I seemed to hear God saying, "Put down your gun and we'll talk.

We must never rest until everything inside us worships God.

I don't know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.

Anyone with the maturity to surrender entirely to God is mature enough for God to use.

Some unanswered prayers are only because God doesn't want to do something for us. He wants to do something through us.

God didn't want me to do more for Him. He wanted me to be more with Him.

Nature eventually has her own way, so perhaps the best procedure is to accept what old Mother Nature or God, if you will, dictates. Accept it and you'll get along better.

If we give God service it must be because He gives us grace. We work for Him because He works in us.

And I think that when I finally decided to let go and let God and allow that to happen, I became a lot more successful than I could have done if I had planned it all myself.

To pray is to accept that we are, and always will be, wholly dependent on God for everything.

Trusting God's plan is the only secret I know in the gentle art of not freaking out.

An act of renunciation is an act of union with God. The Divine Master looks lovingly upon a person who gains a victory over self.

God is not a genie in a bottle, and your wish is not His command. His command better be your wish.

God gave me Parkinson's syndrome to show me I'm not 'The Greatest' - he is.

It is our own arrogance and pride that cause pain. The more that we think that we can do anything, the less we realize our complete dependence on God, and the worse the pain becomes.

The deepest level of worship is praising God inspite of pain, trusting Him during a trial, surrendering while suffering, and loving Him when He seems distant.

It is right to submit to a higher authority whenever a command of God would be violated.

...the person who surrenders absolutely to God, with no reservations, is absolutely safe. From this safe hiding-place he can see the devil , but the devil cannot see him.

God isn't looking for people of great faith, but for individuals ready to follow Him

To be with God is really to be involved in some enormous, overwhelming desire, and joy, and power which you cannot control, which controls you.