Quotes about Acceptance

Whatever the question, love is the answer.

Evangelical Christians and I can sit down and talk one on one about how much we love Jesus, and yet I'm not carried in Christian bookstores.

We spend a lot of energy remembering failures God spent a lot of love saying we could forget.

Remember this, had any other condition been better for you than the one in which you are, divine love would have put you there.

It's not about winning or losing, but love and respect.

When grace moves in... guilt moves out

Who are they to give stars or dots? They're Wemmicks just like you. Eli to Punchinello (p. 25)

God sees us with the eyes of a Father. He sees our defects, errors and blemishes. But He also sees our value.

Mark it down: God loves you with an unearthly love. You can't win it by being winsome. You can't lose it by being a loser. But you can be blind enough to resist it

Grace is God as heart surgeon, cracking open your chest, removing your heart—poisoned as it is with pride and pain—and replacing it with his own. Rather than tell you to change, he creates the change. Do you clean up so he can accept you? No, he accepts you and begins cleaning you up. His dream isn't just to get you into heaven but to get heaven into you.

Identity: smack-dab in the middle...Neither omnipotent nor impotent. Neither God's MVP nor God's mistake.

And if we never agree, can't we agree to disagree? If God can tolerate my mistakes, can't I tolerate the mistakes of others? If God can overlook my errors, can't I overlook the errors of others? If God allows me with my foibles and failures to call him Father, shouldn't I extend the same grace to others? One thing's for sure. When we get to heaven, we'll be surprised at some of the folks we see. And some of them will be surprised when they see us.