Quotes about Acceptance
Anytime we feel not good enough we deny the powerful truth that we are a glorious work of God in progress. We are imperfect because we are unfinished.
- Lysa TerKeurst
The resulting hurt of any form of rejection can linger and entangle us from moving forward if we don't put it behind us.
- Lysa TerKeurst
I can't expect a perfection in others I'm not even capable of living out myself.
- Lysa TerKeurst
Today's rejections, big or subtle, are like stealth bombs that zing straight to my core, locating hurts from my past and making them agonizingly present all over again.
- Lysa TerKeurst
And who understands? Not me, because if I did I would forgive it all.
- John Donne
The warrior learns to master the art of holding fast to dreams while accepting the rigors of becoming the kind of man who can be entrusted with those dreams;
- John Eldredge
The spirit of our day is a soft acceptance of everything—except deep conviction in anything.
- John Eldredge
One of the deepest of all human longings is the longing to belong, to be a part of things, to be invited in. We want to be part of the fellowship. Where did that come from?
- John Eldredge
Sorrow is not a stranger to any of us, though only a few have learned that is is not our enemy either.
- John Eldredge
Judaism, again, was rejected when it rejected the Messiah.
- John Henry Newman
Certainly a liberal education does manifest itself in a courtesy, propriety, and polish of word and action, which is beautiful in itself, and acceptable to others; but it does much more.
- John Henry Newman
Remember to let her into your heart.
- John Lennon