Quotes about Acceptance

All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; Third, it is accepted as self-evident.

Every clause in it occurs in the Old Testament, denoting that our prayers must be Scriptural if they are to be acceptable. "And this is the confidence that we have in Him, that, if we ask any thing according to His will, He heareth us" (1 John 5:14). But we cannot know His will if we are ignorant of His Word.

And what is faith but the acceptance of heaven's gifts, or the trusting in the record wherein those gifts are promised.

Christ's obedience has not rendered ours unnecessary: rather has it rendered ours acceptable.

In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.

If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach.

What's real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

When I think about any of the missteps in my life that I've made, all of which I'm grateful for, it's because I just so wanted to be truly seen and heard for who I am and was afraid I wasn't or wouldn't be.

We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.

No, really: I can't fight, I never could. I can't bring myself to dislike anyone enough.

It may be asked how so imbecile and dangerous a creed ever came to be accepted by intelligent beings. I will answer that question more fully in my next volume of plays, which will be entirely devoted to the subject. For