#surrender

For the first two weeks of filming, I remember bristling at some of the occurrences on the set, none of which directly involved me. Then I surrendered to the environment, to Michael's method, and became much happier, even though no one knew what to expect. ↗

— Madeleine Stowe

#directly #environment #even #expect #filming

Conversion is a complete surrender to Jesus. It's a willingness to do what he wants you to do. ↗

— Billy Sunday

#conversion #jesus #surrender #wants #willingness

Unless you have made a complete surrender and are doing his will it will avail you nothing if you've reformed a thousand times and have your name on fifty church records. ↗

— Billy Sunday

#church #complete #doing #fifty #his

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual. ↗

— Octavio Paz

#attempt #being #love #love is #mutual

And here we see again that we do not decide our own lives. Dieneke, even if we won't see each other again on earth, we will never be sorry for what we did, that we took this stand. ↗

— Diet Eman

#no-regrets #surrender #unpredictability-of-life #diet

If all of the steps of surrender are present, then a great Rembrandt or Monet will evoke love because the artist is simply there in all his naked humanity. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#spirituality #surrender #art

Life is very tough and fragile at the same time, it never backs down or surrenders, but will break open to reveal its beauty and ugliness. As a evening primrose that blooms in the flooding moonlight, just before being trampled upon underfoot by the four-legged frost of the night. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#change #flooding #flower #fragile #frost

In it she told me, "Thanks a lot! I'm ruined - gloriously ruined." I nodded with sudden understanding. "that's it - that describes what has happened to me." I was ruined for life as I had known it before, but gloriously ruined! ↗

— Kay Warren

#kay-warren #say-yes-to-god #courage

TRIPPING OVER JOY What is the difference Between your experience of Existence And that of a saint? The saint knows That the spiritual path Is a sublime chess game with God And that the Beloved Has just made such a Fantastic Move That the saint is now continually Tripping over Joy And bursting out in Laughter And saying, “I Surrender!” Whereas, my dear, I am afraid you still think You have a thousand serious moves. ↗

— Hafiz

#experience

What we really need is only a heart of surrender & always trust what God has plan for our life. So we do our best, God shall take the rest. That's what I called FAITH. ↗

— Olivia Sinaga

#fight-more #god #hope #surrender-to-god #trust