Quotes about Acceptance

If you have the smile of God what does it matter if you have the frown of men?

Holiness does not consist in doing extraordinary things. It consists in accepting, with a smile, what Jesus sends us. It consists in accepting and following the will of God.

Perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring." I smile. "You don't think I'm perfect?" "No. You're delightfully screwy, and I wouldn't have you any other way.

Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.

Our society's obsession with tolerance leads to intolerance. Simply being a Christian today is an offense to our culture.

When we complain about the weather, we are, in reality, murmuring against God.

The more sects we have the better. They are all getting somebody in (to the Church) that the others could not: and even with the numerous divisions we are all doing tolerably well.

Grace is God's acceptance of us. Faith is our acceptance of God accepting us.

A healthy person can accept criticism.

Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.

One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: This too shall pass.

I will never be able to do or be everything you want, nor vice versa, but I'd like to think we can be the sort of people who will dare to tell each other who we really are. The alternative is silence and lies, which are the real enemies of love.