Quotes about Acknowledgment

It is difficult to remember all, and ungracious to omit any.

Faith is the acknowledgment of the entire absence of all goodness in us, and the recognition of the cross as the substitute for all the want on our part. Faith saves, because it owns the complete salvation of another, and not because it contributes anything to that salvation.

In order to honor God with your wealth, you first have to admit that you are rich. Most people won't do that. It's not normal.

The most important thing, I think. You can't run from your past. You have to take it for what it is and realize that it's part of you.

To say, 'well done' to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.

If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.

The first step in helping a suffering person is to acknowledge that the pain is valid, and worthy of a sympathetic response.

Along with Chesterton, I've had to take my place among those who acknowledge that we are what is wrong with the world. What is my snobbishness toward my childhood church, for instance, but an inverted form of the harsh judgment it showed me?

The past must be remembered before it can be overcome.

It is not the same as optimism or wishful thinking, for these imply a denial of reality.

The first step in helping a suffering person (or in accepting our own pain) is to acknowledge that pain is valid, and worthy of a sympathetic response.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults," said Pascal, "but it is a still greater evil to be full of them, and to be unwilling to recognize them.