Quotes about Acceptance

There are a lot of groups that feel a little bit strange around me, because I am inclusive.

Never judge a stranger by his clothes.

Only when you accept the bad news of the gospel does the good news make any sense. The grace, restoration, reconciliation, forgiveness, mercy, patience, power, healing, and hope of the gospel are for sinners. They are only meaningful to you if you admit that you have the disease and realize that it is terminal.

Because of the coexistence of sin and grace, we all shift between denying and affirming our humanity.

For too many of us, our sense of identity is more rooted in our performance than it is in God's grace.

Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over.

Let those who have not walked as we have done, In the red fire of passion, those whose lives Are dull and colourless, in a word let those, If any such there be, who have not loved, Cast stones against you

When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.

Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age. I consider that for any man of culture to accept the standard of his age is a form of the grossest immorality.