Quotes about Acceptance

Grace teaches us that God loves because of who God is, not because of who we are.

We whine about things we have little control over; we lament what we believe ought to be changed.

Grace, my friends, demands nothing from us but that we shall await it with confidence and acknowledge it in gratitude.

Along with Chesterton, I've had to take my place among those who acknowledge that we are what is wrong with the world. What is my snobbishness toward my childhood church, for instance, but an inverted form of the harsh judgment it showed me?

Lord, if you can't make me thin, then make my friends look fat," humorist Erma Bombeck once prayed.

God is the ultimate judge of hypocrisy in the church, I decided; I would leave such judgment in God's capable hands. I began to relax and grow softer, more forgiving of others. After all, who has a perfect spouse, or perfect parents or children? We do not give up on the institution of family because of its imperfections—why give up on the church?

How differently will I relate to the uncommitted if I view them not as evil or unsaved but rather as lost.

The world starves for grace.

I've yet to meet someone who found their way to faith by being criticized.

Novelist Reynolds Price said there is one sentence all humankind craves to hear: "The Maker of all things loves and wants me.

God's arms are always extended; we are the ones who turn away.

What would it take for church to become known as a place where grace is "on tap