Quotes about Acceptance
The only way to make a man worthy of love is by loving him.
- Thomas Merton
Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
No man gives anything acceptable to God until has has first given himself in love and sacrifice.
- AW Tozer
The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.
- Aldous Huxley
All men are mortal, and therefore all men are losers; our profoundest loyalty goes out to the failed.
- John Updike
What can a man do to move along in some kind of grace through his days and years?
- William Saroyan
To love our nothingness we must love everything in us that the proud man loves when he loves himself. But we must love it all for exactly the opposite reason.
- Thomas Merton
A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.
- William Faulkner
Law intends indeed to do service to human life, but it is not able when men do not choose to accept her services; for it is only in those who are obedient to her that she displays her special virtue.
- Epictetus
Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.
- Euripides
God's approval is a whole lot easier to get than man's.
- Beth Moore
Aren't all these notes the senseless writings of a man who won't accept the fact that there is nothing we can do with suffering except to suffer it?
- CS Lewis