Quotes about Acceptance

You cannot love anything or anyone more than you love yourself and you can't love yourself unless you see yourself whole. If you secretly disapprove of any part of yourself, you will secretly hate part of the One who made you. Can you understand that?

The only barrier to apprehending the truth is our own unwillingness to see the world as it is instead of how we prefer it to be.

Release any offense, not only against others but against the world. Find no offense in the waves. Trust Yeshua instead.

When the world hates you, remember that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you. But you do not belong to the world. I have brought you out of the world and that is why it hates you.

All fear springs from an aversion to being threatened or wronged on some level. And yet it is written that true love holds no record of wrong.

I've come to tell you that it's not your fault," he said. "Michelle's beyond suffering, and yet you suffer, trapped in this hell of your own making. Set yourself free, Olivia. Free to love your daughter as she is, not as you wish she could be. In this you will find more peace than you can possibly imagine.

He knew me through and through and he found no shame in me.

It seems as though we Christians have developed a nasty habit of leading people into a radical encounter with God's unconditional love, forgiveness, acceptance, and union only to spend the ensuing years teaching them how to become close to God to earn his approval.

Most people die twice: first when they give up on life, and finally when Death comes to take what's his.

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

Our challenge isn't in becoming more than we are, because we are already risen and complete. Our challenge is to remember and abide in who we are, each day and each hour.

he loved me for who I was, not for who I could be