Quotes about Acceptance

I was standing in our dining-room thinking of nothing in particular, when a cablegram was put into my hand. It said, 'Susy was peacefully released today.' It is one of the mysteries of our nature that a man, all unprepared, can receive a thunder-stroke like that and live.

Homely truth is unpalatable.

What God wills, will happen; thou canst not hurry it, thou canst not alter it; therefore wait; and be patient

I don't blame anybody.  I deserve it all.  Let the cold world do its worst; one thing I know—there's a grave somewhere for me. The world may go on just as it's always done, and take everything from me—loved ones, property, everything; but it can't take that. Some day I'll lie down in it and forget it all, and my poor broken heart will be at rest.

They mourned for his kind of Christianity, and he frankly scoffed at theirs; but both parties went on loving each other just the same.

Not a sparrow falls to the ground without His seeing it. But it falls, just the same. What good is seeing it fall?

The only person who likes change is a wet baby.

God Almighty made us all, and some He gives eyes that's blind, and some He gives eyes that can see, and I reckon it ain't none of our lookout what He done it for; it's all right, or He'd 'a' fixed it some other way.

There is no way of accounting for people. You have to take them as they are.

Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear.

Freedom is not won by a passive acceptance of suffering. Freedom is won by a struggle against suffering.

Lord, help me to accept my tools. However dull they are, help me to accept them. And then Lord, after I have accepted my tools, then help me to set out and do what I can do with my tools.