Quotes about Acceptance

My peace, my companionship," Olivia said softly, "come from my surety that the Lord loves me. Surety that because I've asked, believing He's redeemed me, He's also forgiven me and accepts me—now, as I am. He lives inside me, walks beside me, in the form of His Holy Spirit. He holds my heart, my life. He is my heart, my life." As

Never is a man more ready to accept the Lord than when he faces his own mortality.

Love means to love that which is unlovable or it is no virtue at all.

Sometimes the hardest part of the journey is believing you're worthy of the trip.

You can't love your mother or father if you don't also have the capacity to grieve their deaths and, perhaps even more so, grieve parts of their lives.

God has accepted your repentance. He gives his forgiveness freely.

I believed that was the point of real forgiveness: It was freely given. Grace-filled. Unsolicited.

Someone once told me that everyone deserved to be loved. Even the unlovable? Maybe especially them.

The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us

Learning to accept and even love difference, as she pointed out, is important for the future of the human race. There is great comfort in realizing that differences within a family have an important purpose.

People want to come home to the church of their childhood without having to leave their adult selves behind.

Having lived his life in the belief that something great could be just around every corner, did he realize for the first time that no more corners could be turned?