Quotes about Acceptance
You could be a woman in Alabama who's a conservative Christian, or you could be a total crunchy-granola woman in Seattle and 20 years old, and both of you would watch Oprah.
— Shonda Rhimes
And you know, when you've experienced grace and you feel like you've been forgiven, you're a lot more forgiving of other people. You're a lot more gracious to others.
— Rick Warren
With respect to the question of relationships, my general view is that freedom means freedom for everyone. People...ought to be free to enter into any kind of relationship they want to.
— Dick Cheney
I love to give to charity, but I don't want to be charity. This is why I have so much trouble with grace.
— Donald Miller
God dances with the outcast.
— Steven James
If you don't find forgiveness, you'll never end up with peace,
— Steven James
Our job in this life is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.
— Steven Pressfield
You must know that you are worth much to me whether you accomplish anything or not. Even if you are rejected in the world's eyes, you are valuable to me.
— Stormie Omartian
There's something about compassion that causes society to say, 'We're going to take this person seriously.' Take Mother Teresa. She was confrontational on abortion, but she wasn't rejected by society.
— Max Lucado
There are some hurts that we experience that can be forgiven but we won't forget them.
— Joyce Meyer
Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord.
— Pope Benedict XVI
the only way to get over a death is by seeing it as a life completed, instead of a life interrupted.
— Anonymous