Quotes about Acceptance

If you want to make God laugh, then tell him your plans!

Wherever you are, death will find you, even in the looming tower. O

Grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us more . . . and there is nothing we can do to make God love us less. Philip Yancey1

face." I sat spellbound. Here it was — the image of grace I had been seeking: an aspiring father bringing unconditional acceptance to a child who had absolutely nothing to offer, no accolades or accomplishments, just herself in all of her vulnerability and scars and weaknesses. My eyes moistened. This is the love of a dad. Maybe — just maybe — this is the love of a Father.

Grace liberates us. Our tendency toward performance imprisons us.

God didn't love me because I made myself valuable through service; on the contrary, I was valuable because I was loved by God.

Philip Yancey was dead-on when he said that some Christians get very angry toward other Christians who sin differently than they do.79

Jesus didn't care about a "holy table" as the religious establishment defined "holy." For Jesus a holy table was one that was open to anyone, a table where all God's children were present.

Consider anything, only don't cry!

But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: 'we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.' 'How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice. 'You must be,' said the Cat, 'or you wouldn't have come here.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

Comparison is the thief of joy. Theodore Roosevelt