Quotes about Acceptance

When we don't understand and don't agree with the way life has gone, we are to bow before God and once again confess that we can't understand His wisdom. In faith, we are to accept His wisdom, His Word, and His workings, trusting in Him and obeying His commands.

All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; Third, it is accepted as self-evident.

Every clause in it occurs in the Old Testament, denoting that our prayers must be Scriptural if they are to be acceptable. "And this is the confidence that we have in Him, that, if we ask any thing according to His will, He heareth us" (1 John 5:14). But we cannot know His will if we are ignorant of His Word.

And what is faith but the acceptance of heaven's gifts, or the trusting in the record wherein those gifts are promised.

Christ's obedience has not rendered ours unnecessary: rather has it rendered ours acceptable.

In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.

If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach.

What's real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

When you go through heartbreak, you just do the things that get you by. Eventually, you realise it's about making the most of life.

When I retired first time around, injury had beaten me, and I hated that. Now I realise I'm no longer good enough. And I can handle that. It's fine that I'm not good enough.

When I think about any of the missteps in my life that I've made, all of which I'm grateful for, it's because I just so wanted to be truly seen and heard for who I am and was afraid I wasn't or wouldn't be.