Quotes about Acceptance
If the changes that we fear be thus irresistible, what remains but to acquiesce with silence, as in the other insurmountable distresses of humanity? It remains that we retard what we cannot repel, that we palliate what we cannot cure. Life may be lengthened by care, though death cannot be ultimately defeated: tongues, like governments, have a natural tendency to degeneration; we have long preserved our constitution, let us make some struggles for our language.
— Samuel Johnson
If we will have the kindness of others, we must endure their follies
— Samuel Johnson
ACCIPIENT (ACCI'PIENT) n.s.[accipiens, Lat.] A receiver, perhaps sometimes used for recipient.Dict.
— Samuel Johnson
To be shocked at how deeply rejection hurts is to ignore what acceptance involves. We must never allow our suffering to be compounded by suggestions that there is something odd in suffering so deeply. There would be something amiss if we didn't.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
If you believe in the Gospel what you like, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.
— John Bevere
Children, who are dealt with more generously and more liberally by their fathers, do not hesitate to show them unfinished projects that they have only begun, or even spoiled a little. Even if they have not succeeded in doing quite what they wanted, they are confident that their obedience and readiness of mind will be accepted. Such children we ought to be, trusting confidently that our most lenient Father will approve of them, however small, rough, or imperfect they may be.
— John Calvin
Sweetest love, I do not go,For weariness of thee,Nor in hope the world can showA fitter love for me;But since that IMust die at last, 'tis best,To use my self in jestThus by feign'd deaths to die.
— John Donne
Sometimes Evil pursues the Warrior of the Light, and when it does, he calmly invites it into his tent.
— Paulo Coelho
I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does any man then hinder me from going with smiles and cheerfulness and contentment?
— Epictetus
Great faith doesn't come out of great effort, but out of great surrender.
— Bill Johnson
If I were president of the United States, I would include Moslems in my presidency.
— Jerry Falwell
People take different roads seeking fulfilment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.