Quotes About Acceptance

Daarna gaf ik me maar over aan mijn lot, wat bijna altijd het beste is wat je kunt doen.

Les âmes semblables à la sienne se croient perdues, dès qu'elles ne sentent plus auprès d'elles tuteurs, rampes et garde-fous. De plus elles tolèrent mal chez autrui une liberté qu'elles résignent, et souhaitent d'obtenir par contrainte tout ce qu'on est prêt à leur accorder par amour.

Bisogna lasciare la ragione agli altri perché questo li consola di non aver altro.

Control what you can control.

On my way out with the rest, I glanced back at Bowman. he was on this knees, his hair in his face, his nose and split lips dripping with blood. He was staring down at the floor like he'd been waiting for this and now it had finally happened; he look relieved.

The priest accepted me, I accepted the priest, so everything went off smoothly.

The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.

harsh and narrow taws no other race would accept Where

Racial mixtures after planet-wide wars, mutant births after the nuclear conflicts, had broken down the old intolerance against the different. And out in space thousands of intelligent life forms, encased in almost as many shapes and bodies, had given shape prejudice its final blow.

I believe in pure love, I-Thou, love without boundaries or categories or conditions or making someone less than you are; not treating people like they are foreign or lower or things, I-It.

I'm not feeling regret. I'm feeling confused and off balance." "And you like being in control." "Not of others, but of myself, yes.

she studies to be equal in a world that is no longer surprised at anything

True it is, we only hate those whom we do not know.

East coasters ... attenders at the church of What Is

Alan had become more prepared to go along with the system. It was not that he had ever rebelled, for he had only withdrawn; nor was it now a reconciliation, for he was still withdrawn. But he would take the 'obvious duties' as conventions rather than impositions, as long as they interfered with nothing important.

Don't rely on the properties of things you can't control.

The challenge of life is to appreciate everything and attach yourself to nothing.

Nor can we see the coffin of a person we have known, without experiencing some new shock of loss. In this respect, a coffin is like a mirror, in which we see the image of our own condition, and understand that our human differences, whether of appearance, morality or wealth, must finally be reconciled.

Brother, the act of faith, by which you accept and enter this life in the New Covenant, is not commonly an act of power, but often of weakness and fear and much trembling.

we surrender ourselves, and accept in faith the whole

The reason is simply this—they have never learned to believe and accept the truth that the Holy Spirit can pour God's love into their heart. That blessed text has often been limited!—"The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts" (Romans 5:5). It

We don't have to learn to be holy as a hard lesson at school in order to make God think well of us; we are to learn it at home with the Father to help us. God loves you not because you are clever and not because you are good but because He is your Father. The cross of Christ does not make God love us; it is the outcome and measure of His love for us.

Beware of only saying, "Christ was crucified for me"; say, too, "I am crucified with Christ." (See Galatians 2: 20.) The one thing for which He lives in you is to breathe His own likeness into your nature, to impart to you His own crucifixion spirit, to give you the blessed disposition that made His sacrifice so well pleasing to the Father. Do accept the whole Christ as dwelling in you.

Let a man be what he will, you are to love him. Love is to be the fruit of the Spirit all the day and every day.