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Quotes About Acceptance

unity does not criticize those who do not run as fast as I do, or those who do not meet my standards. Unity respects every believer where he or she is, and trusts God to lead them without judgment.
~ John Crowder
I'm not pressing in anymore. I've been pressed into. I'm not contending anymore. I've been contended for. I'm not a God chaser anymore. I've been chased down, roped, hogtied, bagged and dragged. I'm not appropriating what I have. It's mine. I'm not getting closer to God. He's like a Siamese twin. I'm not even seeking God anymore. He found me.
~ John Crowder
the world bars strangers or makes them present their papers—but the kingdom offers them hospitality and invites them to the wedding feast.
~ John D. Caputo
Being an adult means accepting those situations where no action is possible.
~ John D. MacDonald
Thoughts well up in our mind moment by moment. But we refrain from doing anything with our thoughts. We just let everything come up freely and go away freely. We don't grasp anything. We don't try to control anything. We just sit.
~ John Daido Loori
I put the word "problems" in quotation marks, because difficulties only become problems when we separate ourselves from them instead of dealing with them directly and wholeheartedly.
~ John Daishin Buksbazen
We all have moments when we think nobody sees us. When we feel like we have to act out or be somebody else to get noticed. But somebody notices, Topher. Somebody sees. Somebody out there probably thinks you're the greatest thing in the whole world. Don't ever think you're not good enough.
~ John David Anderson
We all have moments when we think nobody really sees us. When we feel like we have to act out or be somebody else just to get noticed. But somebody notices, Topher. Somebody sees. Somebody out there probably thinks you're the greatest thing in the whole world. Don't ever think you're not good enough.
~ John David Anderson
Do not allow your sorrow or your rage to become hostility toward people on the basis of their ethnicity or their religious views. That is unacceptable; it is out of bounds, and if you break the law, we will prosecute you for it.
~ John David Ashcroft
Love has neither aversion to pain nor attraction to bliss. Love is just fully itself in both.
~ John de Ruiter
The way to realize is to open. The more you open, the more you know, and soften, and love.
~ John de Ruiter
Like having no need of big things. Enjoy that you are okay in being simple.
~ John de Ruiter
On the road of experience, join in the living day; if there's an answer, it's just that it is that way.
~ John Denver
Social engaged intellectuals must accept reality as they found it and shape it toward positive social goals, not stand aside in self-righteous isolation.
~ John Dewey
To me faith means not worrying
~ John Dewey
And dare love that, and say so too,And forget the He and She.
~ John Donne
I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him meerly seise me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwrack, I would do it in a Sea, where mine impotencie might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.
~ John Donne
There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge and judgment, that it is so.
~ John Drinkwater
Humility and resignation are our prime virtues.
~ John Dryden
If you have lived, take thankfully the past.
~ John Dryden
Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today.
~ John Dryden
You make allowances for your family. They may not seem normal to the world but they're normal to you because you've been dealing with them all your life.
~ John Dufresne
strategy 2: Let Go Graciously.
~ John Dunlop
In our youth-oriented culture, aging is feared, something to be put off as long as possible.It has been said:"Everyone wants to live a long time, but no one wants to grow old.
~ John Dunlop