Quotes About Acceptance

But an acceptable Christianity is not Christian; a comprehensible God is no more than an idol. I don't want that kind of God.

If someone knows who he is, really knows, then he doesn't need to hate.

Oh, my darling, you're not dumb," her father answered. "You're like Charles Wallace. Your development has to go at its own pace. It just doesn't happen to be the usual pace.

When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability.

Let us not try to understand the pattern, only rejoice in its beauty.

God go with you." "I don't believe in God." "That's all right. I do." "I'm glad.

one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.

After Justin's death she had had it cut short, and felt that it was more becoming than the heavy masses of long hair he had loved, and which took forever to dry and dress. The short, well-styled hair toweled dry in a few minutes, and fell in becoming waves over her high forehead, her small delicate ears, showing the graceful curve of her neck.

I don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.

Why does the joy of love contain so much sadness? We're afraid of the sadness because it grows and spreads and becomes too terrible to be borne. And because it leads to tenderness. Tenderness. The moment of tenderness, the undoing, unbearable moment of tenderness.

If someone knows who he is, really knows, then he doesn't need to hate. That's why we still need Namers

When two people, lovers, or sometimes friends, have an enduring care for each other, allow each other to be human, faulted, flawed, but real, then being human becomes a glorious thing to be. If the human race ever makes progress, that is how.

Or don't allow yourself to want something you're not going to have the courage to accept when you get it.

and I know he's something more. I guess I'll just have to accept it without understanding it... Maybe that's really the point I was trying to put across.

And if God approves of people like Alicia, he doesn't want me; and the devil does. It's nice to be wanted, Mrs. Franklin. I haven't been wanted for a long time now.

the chief reason that [A Wrinkle in Time] was rejected for over two years and by thirty-odd publishers was because it is a difficult book for many adults, the decision was made to market it as a children's book; it won a medal for children's books.

Mother," Meg pursued. "Charles says I'm not one thing or the other, not flesh nor fowl nor good red herring." "Oh for crying out loud," Calvin said, "you're Meg, aren't you? Come on and let's go for a walk.

The reaper lacks the eyes to hold him back;

Love. That's what makes persons know who they are. You're full of love, Meg, but you don't know how to stay within it when it's not easy.

Meg, I give you your faults.

Power is what Satan offers us, whereas God keeps pointing out that we serve el best in our weakness, so that we can acknowledge that it is the Creator choosing to work through us, his fragile creatures. It is God who has made us, and not we ourselves. But because we enjoy feeling powerful, we accept Satan's offers.

You human beings tend to want good things to last forever. They don't. Not while we're in time.

If someone knows who he is, really knows, then he doesn't need to hate. That's why we still need

What happens to what's happened? she asked the bishop. It's there. Waiting. But the time gate's closed, isn't it? Yes. But that can't take away what we've had. The good and the bad.