Quotes about Acceptance

Embrace the tension.

I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am. Philippians 4:11

I will place My residence among you, and I will not reject you. Leviticus 26:11

I don't believe that rejection, in and of itself, is a stronghold. It's our reaction to rejection that determines whether or not we become bound by it.

You do matter, already. Without making one single change.

The absence of regret makes no guarantee of the absence of pain.

I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritism but accepts men from every nation who fear him

I know divers, and divers men know me, which love me as I do them: yet if I should pray them, when I meet them in the street openly, they would abhor me; but if I pray them where they be appointed to meet me secretly, they will hear me and accept my request.

There's enormous energy required to carry grudges - enormous energy! And I'm getting too old to expend my energy that way, cause I think every person has a limited amount of energy. So I have given up all grudges.

I grew up segregated, but there was not much feeling of being shut out of anything.

Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. I honor my grief.

Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.