Quotes About Wholehearted

#1. We apply our effort to be mindful, to be aware in this very moment, right here and now, and we bring a very wholehearted effort to it. This brings concentration. It is this power of concentration that we use to cut through the world of surface appearances to get to a much deeper reality.

Sharon Salzberg

#2. Wholehearted living is not like trying to reach a destination. It's like walking toward a star in the sky. We never really 'arrive,' but we certainly know that we're heading in the right direction.

Brene Brown

#3. If we want to live a Wholehearted life, we have to become intentional about cultivating sleep and play, and about letting go of exhaustion as a status symbol and productivity as self-worth.

Brene Brown

#4. May we continue to workship God, with wholehearted devotion.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. We went on record as half-bad musicians having wholehearted lives.

Barbara Kingsolver

#6. I've learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.

Brene Brown

#7. When you yield yourself in complete and wholehearted obedience to God, He can do great things through you.

Jim George

#8. Healing the self means committing ourselves to a wholehearted willingness to be what and how we are-beings frail and fragile, strong and passionate, neurotic and balanced, diseased and whole, partial and complete, stingy and generous, twisted and straight, storm-tossed and quiescent, bound and free.

Paula Gunn Allen

#9. Simplified living is about more than doing less. It's being who God called us to be, with a wholehearted, single-minded focus. It's walking away from innumerable lesser opportunities in favor of the few to which we've been called and for which we've been created.

Bill Hybels

#10. He was undoubtedly intelligent and well informed, but too right-wing for Grane's tastes. It was rare to find a well-educated Swede who was also a wholehearted supporter of the American Republican Party - he even expressed some sympathy for the Tea Party movement.

David Lagercrantz

#11. How much we know and understand ourselves is critically important, but there is something that is even more essential to living a Wholehearted life: loving ourselves. Knowledge is

Brene Brown

#12. I thought I'd find that Wholehearted people were just like me and doing all of the same things I was doing: working hard, following the rules, doing it until I got it right, always trying to know myself better, raising my kids exactly by the books ...

Brene Brown

#13. Discipline is the wholehearted yes to the call of God. When I know myself called, summoned, addressed, taken possession of, known, acted upon, I have heard the Master. I put myself gladly, fully, and forever at His disposal, and to whatever He says my answer is yes.

Elisabeth Elliot

#14. A country facing an aggressive enemy must decide either to be prepared to fight effectively or to follow the path of nonviolence to the end. In either case, the decision must be wholehearted and the consequences must be accepted.

Freeman Dyson

#15. Over the course of history, many Jews have ultimately embraced Christianity - some forcibly, some in order to advance in non-Jewish society, some out of wholehearted belief.

Meir Soloveichik

#16. True leaders must be willing to suffer for the sake of objectives great enough to demand their wholehearted obedience.

J. Oswald Sanders

#17. When those eyes of fire discover a heart that is fully set to love Him through wholehearted obedience, no matter their station or ranking, He is moved.

Anna Blanc

#18. I looked up in curiosity. Behind us stood the Brown and Eagle Wool Warehouse and Schneider's Cap Factory, both constructed with that wholehearted devotion to industry that sullied the word architecture.

Lyndsay Faye

#19. Leadership must be based on goodwill. Goodwill does not mean posturing and, least of all, pandering to the mob. It means obvious and wholehearted commitment to helping followers.

James Stockdale

#20. Grown-ups are an untrustworthy, treacherous lot, they don't take their games in the serious wholehearted way children do, and yet they too have their own games, one more serious than the other, one game inside another, so that it's impossible to discover what the real one is.

Italo Calvino

#21. God wants us to respond in wholehearted love because it is who He is and who He created us to be.

Mike Bickle

#22. "What is the secret of your serenity?" Said the master: "Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable."

Anthony De Mello

#23. She liked to talk about things that mattered. She was wholehearted, and fierce.

Rainbow Rowell

#24. What he'd never understood about men in his position, in all the books he'd read and movies he'd seen about them, was clearer to him now: you couldn't keep expecting wholehearted love without, at some point, requiting it. There was no credit to be earned for simply being good.

Jonathan Franzen

#25. [I]t's impossible to please God in any other way that wholehearted surrender...

Francis Chan

#26. The debacle of European pacifism has at least one clear lesson to teach us: pacifists, if they are to be effective in the modern world, must be as wholehearted and as brave as Gandhi.

Freeman Dyson

#27. In our spiritual pilgrimage we see sins which mar our relationship with God, but beneath it is a commitment which seeks to move beyond to a higher life, based on wholehearted surrender to God.

Billy Graham

#28. If you give your life as a wholehearted response to love, then love will wholeheartedly respond to you.

Marianne Williamson

#29. Making a wholehearted commitment to being happy is a powerful medicine.

Robert Holden

#30. Do you understand that it's impossible to please God in any way other than wholehearted surrender?

Francis Chan

#31. For humans and animals alike, truly vigorous, wholehearted, spontaneous play is something of a biological frill.

Robin Marantz Henig

#32. I'm wholehearted about whatever I do.

Melinda Gates

#33. Acting in humility requires we simply obey Him when He says to step up or step back. Our role in living humbly is to sustain a big, wholehearted yes to whatever the hand of the Lord is doing.

Anna Blanc

#34. Wholehearted living is about engaging in our lives from a place of worthiness.

Brene Brown

#35. The only right response to Christ's lordship is wholehearted submission, loving obedience, and passionate worship.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#36. Even though there are so many teachings, so many meditations, so many instructions, the basic point of it all is just to learn to be extremely honest and also wholehearted about what exists in your mind - thoughts, emotions bodily sensations, the whole thing that adds up to what we call "me" or "I".

Pema Chodron

#37. Wholehearted life: loving ourselves.

Brene Brown

#38. I am dealing with people and not with things. And, because I am dealing with people, I cannot refuse my wholehearted and loving attention, even in personal matters, where I see that a student is in need of such attention.

Paulo Freire

#39. It is a commitment to respect whatever life brings that we develop wholehearted determination to use discomfort as an opportunity for awakening, rather than trying to make it disappear.

Pema Chodron

#40. EMBARKING on the spiritual journey is like getting into a very small boat and setting out on the ocean to search for unknown lands. With wholehearted practice comes inspiration, but sooner or later we will also encounter fear.

Pema Chodron

#41. What is the secret of your serenity?" a student asked Sophia
"Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable," she replied.

David W. Jones

#42. Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.

Vernor Vinge

#43. and how the wholehearted surrender to abide in Him

Andrew Murray

#44. Acknowledge the God of your father, and serve him with wholehearted devotion and with a willing mind, for the Lord searches every heart and understands every motive behind the thoughts. (1 Chron. 28:9)

Beth Moore

#45. To just read the Bible, attend church, and avoid "big" sins-is this passionate, wholehearted love for God?

Francois Fenelon

#46. What is needed isn't merely tolerance but acceptance, wholehearted and unconditional.

Maria Popova

#47. There is no work-life balance. We have one life. What's most important is that you be awake for it.

Janice Marturano

#48. We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts.

John Ruskin