Quotes about Acceptance

It is the very joy of this earthly life to think that it will come to an end.

A warrior accepts defeat. He does not treat it as a matter of indifference nor does he try to make a victory of it.

Take it that you have died today, and your life's story is ended; and henceforward regard what future time may be given you as uncovenanted surplus, and live it out in harmony with nature.

Vex not thy spirit at the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in life.

All changes — ?spiritual revivals, a turnaround in a church, a barren life now bearing fruit — ?begin when there is a discontentment that says, "I refuse to accept this.

When it comes time to die, make sure all you got to do is die.

We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the United States.

I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends' mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life, even after their passing.

Some people seem to understand this - that life and change take time - but I am not one of those people.

The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery of God's identity and love and ways. I hate that, but it's the truth.

You will lose someone you can't live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn't seal back up. And you come through. It's like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.

I do not understand the mystery of grace -- only that it meets us where we are and does not leave us where it found us.