Quotes about Acceptance

Because we suddenly see that making everything all right would NOT make everything all right. We would not be human beings. We would then be no more than puppets obeying the strings of the master puppeteer. We agree sadly that it is a good thing that we are not God; we do not have to understand God's ways, or the suffering and brokenness and pain that sooner or later come to us all.

To love anyone is to hope in him always. From the moment at which we begin to judge anyone, to limit our confidence in him, from the moment at which we identify [pigeonhole] him, and so reduce him to that, we cease to love him, and he ceases to be able to become better. We must dare to love in a world that does not know how to love.

The answer has something to do with love. Love that has to go through darkness and pain and endurance and a stark acceptance before it can come out into the far light of the sun.

And another lovely paradox: we can be humble only when we know that we are God's children, of infinite value, and eternally loved.

But I have to accept the fact that I am often unwise; that I am not always loving; that I make mistakes; that I am, in fact, human. And as Christians we are not meant to be less human than other people, but more human, just as Jesus of Nazareth was more human.

We want nothing from you that you do without grace," Mrs Whatsit said, "or that you do without understanding.

But our fear and our rejection does not take away from truth, and truth is what the Bible instructs us to know in order that we may be free.

Let us not try to understand the pattern, only rejoice in its beauty.

God go with you." "I don't believe in God." "That's all right. I do." "I'm glad.

one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.

When two people, lovers, or sometimes friends, have an enduring care for each other, allow each other to be human, faulted, flawed, but real, then being human becomes a glorious thing to be. If the human race ever makes progress, that is how.

And if God approves of people like Alicia, he doesn't want me; and the devil does. It's nice to be wanted, Mrs. Franklin. I haven't been wanted for a long time now.