Quotes about Acceptance

Love means to love that which is unlovable or it is no virtue at all.

Sometimes the hardest part of the journey is believing you're worthy of the trip.

You can't love your mother or father if you don't also have the capacity to grieve their deaths and, perhaps even more so, grieve parts of their lives.

God has accepted your repentance. He gives his forgiveness freely.

I believed that was the point of real forgiveness: It was freely given. Grace-filled. Unsolicited.

Someone once told me that everyone deserved to be loved. Even the unlovable? Maybe especially them.

The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us

Learning to accept and even love difference, as she pointed out, is important for the future of the human race. There is great comfort in realizing that differences within a family have an important purpose.

People want to come home to the church of their childhood without having to leave their adult selves behind.

Having lived his life in the belief that something great could be just around every corner, did he realize for the first time that no more corners could be turned?

Imagine how our own families, let alone the world, would change if we vowed to keep faith with one another, strengthen one another, look for and accentuate the virtues in one another, and speak graciously concerning one another. Imagine the cumulative effect if we treated each other with respect and acceptance, if we willingly provided support. Such interactions practiced on a small scale would surely have a rippling effect throughout our homes and communities and, eventually, society at large.

I am totally in the hands of the Lord.