Quotes about Acceptance
The cross means the acceptance of limitation on desire. Without establishing this for yourself, there can only be frustration and worse, for you simply cannot satisfy desire.
— Dallas Willard
Lord, when we are wrong, make us willing to change, and when we are right, make us easy to live with!
— Dallas Willard
The heart, or will, simply is spirit in human beings. It is the human spirit, and the only thing in us that God will accept as the basis of our relationship to him. It is the spiritual plane of our natural existence, the place of truth before God, from where alone our whole lives can become eternal.
— Dallas Willard
We can receive the things we do not want—or give up the things we do want—if we have decided, by the grace of God, that we can trust God to take care of us.
— Dallas Willard
New Testament passages make plain that this kingdom is not something to be "accepted" now and enjoyed later, but something to be entered now (Matt. 5:20; 18:3; John 3:3, 5). It is something that already has flesh-and-blood citizens (John 18:36; Phil. 3:20) who have been transformed into it (Col. 1:13) and are fellow workers in it (Col. 4:11).
— Dallas Willard
Defensiveness often reveals an area of our lives where we're in denial.
— Kyle Idleman
My trust in God flows out of the experience of his loving me, day in and day out, whether the day is stormy or fair, whether I'm sick or in good health, whether I'm in a state of grace or disgrace. He comes to me where I live and loves me as I am.
— Brennan Manning
Don't ever criticize yourself. Don't go around all day long thinking, 'I'm unattractive, I'm slow, I'm not as smart as my brother.' God wasn't having a bad day when he made you… If you don't love yourself in the right way, you can't love your neighbour. You can't be as good as you are supposed to be.
— Joel Osteen
There is no way to happiness — happiness is the way.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Never ask why I love you, just accept that I do, and that I will for the rest of my life.
— Anonymous
"Just wanted to let you know that I love you even though you aren't naked right now."
— Anonymous
If you love something so much let it go. If it comes back it was meant to be; if it doesn't it never was.
— Albert Schweitzer