Quotes about Acceptance

It is an act of gracious generosity to accept a person based on what we know to be the truth about them, regardless of whether or not they are in touch with that truth themselves.

To surrender to God means to let go and just love.

The only real problem is a lack of love. To address the world's problems on any other level is a temporary palliative—a fix but not a healing, a treatment of the symptom but not a cure.

Very few of us were taught that we're essentially good.

The heart's transformation is not attained through the mind—it's attained through surrender, authenticity, forgiveness, faith, honesty, acceptance, vulnerability, humility, willingness, nonjudgment, and other characterological values that have to be learned and relearned continuously.

I needn't prove anything to anyone. I am blessed as a child of God.

All of a sudden, you're not too proud to ask for help. That's what it means to surrender to God.

The ego seeks intimacy through control and guilt. The Holy Spirit seeks intimacy through acceptance and release.

Similarly, if we want to be rid of fear, we cannot fight it but must replace it with love.

We're affected by other peoples' lovelessness only to the extent to which we judge them for it. Otherwise we are invulnerable to the ego, as the Son of God is meant to be.

The other person doesn't have to consciously join you in the change. 'Whoever is saner at the time,' says A Course in Miracles, 'is to invite the Holy Spirit into a situation.' It doesn't matter whether or not another person shares our willingness to let God enter. Everything you need in life already exists inside your head.

We're not at the mountaintop until any zone is comfortable. Love isn't love until it's unconditional.