Quotes about Acceptance

faith alone makes all other works good, acceptable and worthy

God's approval isn't based on what a person does. Rather, he accepts what a person does because he already approves of the person. The person hasn't earned God's approval through the good that he or she does. Because

In addition, when these men were confronted, they did not stubbornly persist in their sins but repented. Paul commands that we should accept, instruct, and restore such people (Galatians 6:1). So those who sin and fall because of weakness will not be refused forgiveness if they stand up again and do not persist in their sin. Persisting in sin is disastrous.

the Lord has freed us from great evils to which we have been subjected, and that we have accepted many good things by faith.

and whatever good Germany has is not the result of her own power, virtue, or wisdom, but has been received from those rejected, despised, and accursed people who are called Christians

Sinners are attractive because they are loved; they are not loved because they are attractive.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

The Christian faith makes it possible for us nobly to accept that which cannot be changed, and to meet disappointments and sorrow with an inner poise, and to absorb the most intense pain without abandoning our sense of hope.

I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.

Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.