Quotes about Acceptance
The man I love may decide tomorrow that he loves me no more - but if my heart remains open, I will endure the storm.
- Marianne Williamson
My eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I'm still around.
- John Wooden
The Bible says today is the accepted time, today is the day of salvation... But there will come a time when it will be too late for you.
- Billy Graham
For me, Jesus is my cleft in the rock. He is my safest friend, my safe totally loving accepting big brother.
- Anne Lamott
There's nothing better than belonging to a great group of friends and nothing worse than feeling like an outcast. Friends are important but should never become your center.
- Sean Covey
No one is better or worse than anyone else, just different. You're okay, they're okay.
- Sean Covey
Do the best you can . . . enjoy the present . . . rest satisfied with what you have.
- Seneca
Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.
- Seneca
Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.
- Seneca
Jeanne de Chantal, seventeenth-century founder of the Order of the Visitation, said, "No matter what happens, be gentle with yourself.
- Shane Claiborne
There are so many people who are longing to be brought to life, who know all too well that they have done evil and long to hear not only of a God who embraces evildoers but also of a church that does the same.
- Shane Claiborne
Lord, what you call compassion, others call weakness. What you call conviction, others call dissidence. What you call love, others call mixing with sinners. We pray that we too might be found weak, dissident, and in bad company, especially if it means we are closer to you. Amen.
- Shane Claiborne