Quotes about Acceptance

Thank you, Lord, for never turning me away. For never getting scared, for never lashing out when I hurt you, for always being there with arms wide open, ready to take me back.

Nor do I," Anu said quietly. "But there is never so much love in our lives that we can afford to reject it when it is offered.

There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realized.

There are few things more liberating in life than having your worst fear realized.

Things that are done, it is needless to speak about...things that are past, it is needless to blame.

Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.

All through the short afternoon they kept coming, the people who counted themselves Father's friends. Young and old, poor and rich, scholarly gentlemen and illiterate servant girls—only to Father did it seem that they were all alike. That was Father's secret: not that he overlooked the differences in people; that he didn't know they were there.

Thank you," Betsie went on serenely, "for the fleas and for-" The fleas! This was too much. "Betsie, there's no way even God can make me grateful for a flea." "Give thanks in all circumstances," she quoted. "It doesn't say, 'in pleasant circumstances.' Fleas are part of this place where God has put us." And so we stood between piers of bunks and gave thanks for fleas. But this time I was sure Betsie was wrong.

And so I learned that love is larger than the walls that shut it in.

But more than that, I felt - no, not beautiful. Even on such a romantic day as this I could not persuade myself of that. I knew that my jaw was too square, my legs too long, my hands too large. But I earnestly believed - and all the books agreed - that I would look beautiful to the man who loved me.

Every family possesses at least one off-the-charts challenging person. If you're tempted to tell me that yours doesn't, then I hate to be the one to break it to you, but maybe you are the one!

If someone has been trying to show you something about yourself and you continue to fight it, maybe it's time to acknowledge that you might be deceived.