Quotes about Acceptance
Here lies the bottom and root of all contentment, when there is an evenness and proportion between our hearts and our circumstances.
— Jeremiah Burroughs
he who claims to believe in Christ must rejoice in all Christ's judgments.
— Jerome
Anxiety is a sin also because it is a lack of acceptance of God's providence in our lives.
— Jerry Bridges
They find it difficult to accept that both calamities and good things come from God.
— Jerry Bridges
Often unwilling to accept the fact that God is working because they don't understand how He is working, they have chosen to substitute the doctrine of chance for the doctrine of divine providence.
— Jerry Bridges
God owes me no explanation. He has the right to do what He wants, when He wants, and how He wants. Why? Because He's God. . .
— Jerry Bridges
So we should never ask why in the sense of demanding that God explain or justify His actions or what He permits in our lives.
— Jerry Bridges
For us that is not a particularly striking event, but for a Muslim country to allow a Christian school to remain open when others were closed was indeed unusual.
— Jerry Bridges
I'm accepted by God, not on the basis of my personal performance, but on the basis of the infinitely perfect righteousness of Jesus Christ.
— Jerry Bridges
The converse truth is that love gives validity to my actions and makes them acceptable to God.
— Jerry Bridges
Just as we should learn to stop asking why, or searching for rational explanations, or seeking to discover what "good" there is in our own adversities, so we must also learn to quiet our hearts in regard to God's government of the universe.
— Jerry Bridges
Did He create you with an incurable speech impediment?
— Jerry Bridges