Quotes about Acceptance

Insecurity is unnecessary — you will get what you deserve.

I have felt most successful when I am inspiring and empowering people to love and accept themselves more deeply, to open their hearts to others more fully; to trust and believe in themselves more completely, and to pursue their dreams more boldly and passionately.

Either accept that you are making the choice to stay where you are, take responsibility for your choice, and stop complaining... or take the risk of doing something new and different to create your life exactly the way you want it.

Only as men succeed in seeing no evil in others will they become free from sin, and sorrow, and suffering.

If you were born to be a nail, you cannot curse the hammer.

If you were born to be a nail, you cannot curse the hammer.

Luke thus provides the last part of the prophetic pattern, that of rejection by the people. As Simeon foretold, this will be worked out in the subsequent narrative in terms of a division within Israel between those who do and those who do not accept this prophet. But this ominous opening already suggests a reason why many Jews later on in Acts reject the Gospel, precisely because it is meant for all (cf. e.g., Acts 13:44—52).

Yahweh doesn't owe us an explanation for what He does. He's sovereign over all: 'Can you fathom the mysteries of God? Can you probe the limits of the Almighty? They are higher than the heavens—what can you do? They are deeper than the depths of the grave—what can you know?... If he comes along and confines you in prison... who can oppose him?' So you see? I don't need to know why anymore.

We were meant to love people, and we need to accept their love in return. Otherwise, we ain't really living.

Worry doesn't change a single thing. Just live.

I will thank Him for all that He has given me, not curse Him for all that I've lost.

Because the need to be loved and accepted runs so deep, we find ourselves doing things we never thought possible just to try to satisfy those desires. What starts off as a seemingly small compromise can easily become a complete contradiction to the people we long to be. We set things in motion that we never intended, all because we missed the miracle of His presence and promise in the midst of the mess.