Quotes about Acceptance

If you obey for a thousand years, you're no more accepted than when you first believed; your acceptance is based on Christ's righteousness and not yours.

You no longer have to hope and pray that someday you will measure up, because Jesus has measured up on your behalf.

True biblical love doesn't just accept you, bless you with patience, and greet your failures with forgiveness. Along with all these things, it works to do everything it can to protect you from the eternal weaknesses of heart that make you susceptible to temptation.

The thought that any fallen human being would be able to perform his or her way into acceptance with God has to be the most insane of all delusions.

If you mourn the fallenness of your world rather than curse its difficulties, you know that grace has visited you.

death is literally all around us. We cannot run and we cannot hide and we have no ability to defeat it. Death lives at our address, and there is no escaping.

On your very worst, most rebellious, and most faithless day, you can run into the holy presence of your heavenly Father and he will not turn you away.

If you obey God for a thousand years, you will not have earned more of his acceptance than you were granted the very first moment you believed.

It's pointless to blame someone for being themselves and looking to their own interests.

That's how the world is, and there is nothing an insignificant nobody like you, or even a significant somebody like me, can do about it.

Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.

We cannot love unless we have accepted forgiveness, and the deeper our experience of forgiveness is, the greater is our love.