Quotes about Acceptance

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.

Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.

Infantile people complain and say that God is cruel or that there is no God. Mature people, however, know that there is wisdom and sometimes an eternal kindness in God's refusals.

Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.

Without loving-kindness for ourselves, it is difficult, if not impossible, to genuinely feel it for others.

If we will have the kindness of others, we must endure their follies.

What is kinder--to believe the best of people and burden them with a nobility beyond their endurance--or to see them as they are, and accept it because it makes them comfortable?

No human being is illegal.

We are not asked to SEE, said Amy. Why need we when we KNOW? We know--not the answer to the inevitable Why, but the incontestable fact that it is for the best. It is an irreparable loss, but is it faith at all if it is 'hard to trust' when things are entirely bewildering?

Let not him who accepts light in an instant despise him who gropes months in shadows.

Whatever is in the cup that God is offering to me, whether it be pain and sorrow and suffering and grief along with the many more joys, I'm willing to take it because I trust Him.

He is not all we would ask for (if we were honest), but it is precisely when we do not have what we would ask for, and only then, that we can clearly perceive His all-sufficiency.