Quotes about Acceptance
Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful
- Albert Camus
Lean into the sharp points and fully experience them. The essence of bravery is being without self-deception. Wisdom is inherent in (understanding) emotions.
- Pema Chodron
Things that are done, it is needless to speak about...things that are past, it is needless to blame.
- Confucius
Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.
- Anne Lamott
A faith that is afraid of other people is no faith at all.
- Thomas Merton
You have given it all to me. To you, Lord, I return it. Everything is yours; do with it what you will. Give me only your love and grace. That is enough for me.
- Ignatius of Loyola
We are obliged to love one another. We are not strictly bound to "like" one another.
- Thomas Merton
People in every country should be free to choose and live their faith based upon the persuasion of the mind, and the heart, and the soul. This tolerance is essential for religion to thrive.
- Barack Obama
Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
- CS Lewis
I am truly grateful that faith enables me to move past the question of 'Why?'
- Zig Ziglar
My effort should never be to undermine another's faith but to make him a better follower of his own faith.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Grace is something you can never get but only be given.
- Frederick Buechner