Quotes about Acceptance

I can face things out of my control without acting out of control.

Girls who have the lingering whispers of rejection still echoing in the hollows of their soul rarely feel completely held safe. So

Girls who have the lingering whispers of rejection still echoing in the hollows of their soul rarely feel completely held safe.

In the quiet, we feel safe enough to humble ourselves.

With the fullness of God, we are free to let humans be humans—fickle and fragile and forgetful.

I'm not equipped to handle what she has, both good and bad--and what she has is always a package deal of both.

Sip the shame so you won't have to guzzle the regret." In other words, taste a little bit of the shame of letting it all rip before you find yourself drowning in gallons of unwanted regret.

I have allowed myself to believe that to be stripped of all the props and pretensions and accolades and approvals is to be stripped of the best parts of me. When in reality what's best about me comes to the forefront when I'm closest to the way God created me, naked and unashamed. To stand naked and unashamed is the way of the garden life.

Rejection isn't just an emotional feeling. It's a message that alters what you believe about yourself. And the minute you sense that happening is the minute you must stop the runaway thinking with truth.

Just because you…achieve what you always thought would make you feel special does not fix that deep-down internal insecurity. External achievement never equals internal acceptance.

Anytime we feel not good enough we deny the powerful truth that we are a glorious work of God in progress. We are imperfect because we are unfinished.

The resulting hurt of any form of rejection can linger and entangle us from moving forward if we don't put it behind us.