Quotes About Surrender

The inspiration came suddenly again to surrender to the Mother. It was quite unexpected: And so somehow I made a surrender to the Mother. Then I had an experience of overwhelming love. Waves of love sort of flowed into me.

What happens when we're willing to feel bad is that, sure enough, we often feel bad - but without the stress of futile avoidance. Emotional discomfort, when accepted, rises, crests, and falls in a series of waves. Each wave washes parts of us away and deposits treasures we never imagined.

Remember that you don't choose love; love chooses you. All you really can do is accept it for all its mystery when it comes into your life. Feel the way it fills you to overflowing then reach out and give it away.

The fact is I have lost a fight, and I accept the loss from Allah. That's the way a real fighter and a real man goes out.

I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the one hand, God was calling me. On the other, I was following the way of the world. Doing what God wanted made me happy; but I felt bound by the things of this world.

If I ever went, I'd want to go peacefully in my sleep. I wouldn't want to plan my own death.

Whatever God has planned for me, that's what's going to happen.

My job is to give my best, and where my journey would take me is something that I have left to God. I am not much of a planner; I am more of a doer.

Sometimes, the plans in your heart aren't God's plan.

If you want to make God happy, tell him your plans.

I have learned in my life that my plans don't matter. It's God's plan.

You're not going to do that. If you gave your best to what you were given, at the time, it's going to play out how it's going to play out.

I'm a baseball player who likes to enjoy himself and leave everything to God. He knows what'll happen.

May it please Christ our Lord to grant us true humility and abnegation of will and judgment, so that we may deserve to begin to be His disciples.

No matter who we are, God does not adapt to please us; we always have to adapt to him.

Everything I do is for the pleasure of Allah.

The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound.

I like to control everything, and you cannot control everything. You have to at some point say, 'I let go and I'm going to let the cards fall where they fall... For a control freak, it's hard.

When I looked very closely to the Bible and to Jesus, this Christ who came, I discovered something awesome. I discovered that when He's first, then He places me in a second position that's above the class that I was given by other men.

I used to be real cocky about what I do but then I realized it's not me, all of this is really God's gift and whenever He want to, He can take it away.

God can do all sorts of things, God does not need me! But He commands me to be like His Son, and that is all.

God lays claim to all firsts. So when you keep for yourself something that belongs to God you are desecrating what is to be consecrated to God.

Deep down, I reckon the sweetest moment will come when it's finally all over. When, at last, I know that I can stop fighting. Of course it'll also be a little sad. The sweetest moments, y'know, always come with just a little sadness.

We have not even sworn off. Instead, the problem has been removed. It does not exist for us.