Quotes about Acceptance

Ben Carson: It's all in God's hands. Craig: But we believe you let God use your hands.

Without Christ, every woman has intense insecurities. Unless we find our identity in Him, we Christian women can be just as prone to insecurities about our appearance as unbelievers. To Christ, the most beautiful person on earth is the one making preparation to meet the Groom.

For the most part we've dumbed-down New Testament Christianity and accepted our reality as theology rather than biblical theology as our reality. We've reversed the standard, walking by sight and not by faith. We want to be the best of what we see, but frankly what we see is far removed from God's best.

No matter who you are or what kind of baggage you carry with you, no matter what you look like or feel like, no matter what you do or don't do, God loves you just as you are right now. You don't have to get your act together, lose ten pounds, run a marathon, write a best-selling book, or raise perfect children. You are an extraordinary woman in His sight right now.

Life isn't fair. Not from any direction. I live in the inconceivable grace of God every day of my life. That's not fair either.

In our day and age, the Samaritan woman might have been someone we would condemn. Maybe we would point out the error of her ways rather than reach out to her in love. But what did Jesus do? He loved her enough to talk to her— and then listen. He acknowledged her as a person. Then, and only then, did He begin to instruct her.

He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God. (John 1:10—12)

Everybody needs to be loved with a love that will never fail or go away. Truly, our hearts will never be healthy unless we learn to accept, receive, and abide in God's unfailing love.

Do not call anything impure that God has made clean" (Acts 10:15). Praise God that all who are in Christ have been made clean.

The woman at the well, I believe, represents women everywhere— women who are forgiven sinners and women who are unforgiven sinners. Which describes you? The Samaritan woman was unforgiven, just like a lot of women in the world. But then she encountered Jesus. I

We may as well accept faith challenges as a fact of life and not be shocked or feel picked on when they come.

Who does God say we are? If we've received Jesus as our personal Savior, the sum of our identity is found in 1 John 3:1: "How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called the children of God! And that is what we are!