Quotes about Acceptance

And there is no small consolation in a due apprehension of that spiritual dignity which ensues hereon; for when they meet with the greatest troubles and the most contemptuous scorns in this world, a due apprehension of their acceptance with God, as being made kings and priests unto him, yields them a refreshment which the world knows nothing of, and which themselves are not able to express.

The true and acceptable principles of mortification shall be afterward insisted on. Hatred of sin as sin, not only as galling or disquieting, a sense of the love of Christ in the cross, lie at the bottom of all true spiritual mortification.

Have something to believe in; have a reason to believe in it, but stay open-minded.

Things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out.

Sometime you can do everything right and still lose. It's all a journey. You do your best, and then you have to let it go. Lots of people preach that, but come crunch time—oops, not so easy to do.

The great act of faith is when a man decides that he is not God.

The openness of our hearts and minds can be measured by how wide we draw the circle of what we call family.

How beautiful it is to learn that Grace isn't fragile, and that in the family of God we can fail and not be a failure.

I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.

Home is the place when you have to go there they have to take you in.

It's better to have the faith to embrace reality with all its pain than to cling to the false comfort of a painless fantasy.

Don't chase accomplishments , people or positions to find your worth. You're already loved as you are by the Father.