Quotes About Acceptance

That the movements of God's grace must always be accepted and understood in virtue of the life of faith, because ultimately the truth of every mysterious action of his grace is discerned in the light of faith rather than by the powers of reason or of intellect.

I had continuously to learn to accept God's will—not as I wished it to be, not as it might have been, but as it actually was at the moment.

This tendency to set acceptable conditions upon God, to seek unconsciously to make his will for us coincide with our desires, is a very human trait.

it was easy to float freely and euphorically into the future, ready to accept whatever God might have prepared for me there. But the future was now the present, and as is always the case, it was a lot more unmanageable and full of bustle than it had seemed in the abstract. Accordingly, my new spirit of interior resolve to search out and understand and accept God's will in every detail of every situation was quickly put to a rude test by the rough and ready realities of life.

That's what humility means—learning to accept disappointments and even defeat as God-sent, learning to persevere and carry on with peace of heart and confidence in God, secure in the knowledge that something worthwhile is being accomplished precisely because God's will is at work in our life and we are doing our best to accept and follow it.

Striving instead to eliminate all self-will, to accept God's will revealed in the circumstances of daily life, is the surest way to achieve growth in conformity to the will of God.

La humildad significa eso: aprender a aceptar el desánimo e incluso la derrota como enviados por Dios; aprender a perseverar y seguir adelante con el corazón en paz y confiando en Dios, seguros de que lo que suceda merece la pena, por el mero hecho de que en nuestra vida está actuando la voluntad de Dios y nosotros procuramos aceptarla y seguirla.

Somehow, by the trials and tribulations of this life, our souls must be purified of this dross of self if we are to become ultimately acceptable to God.

We are not saved by doing our own will, but the will of the Father; we do that not by interpreting it or reducing it to mean what we would like it to mean, but by accepting it in its fullness, as made manifest to us by the situations and circumstances and persons his providence sends us. It is so simple and yet so difficult.

For each of us, salvation means no more and no less than taking up daily the same cross of Christ, accepting each day what it brings as the will of God, offering back to God each morning all the joys, works, and sufferings of that day.

No matter how close to God the soul felt, how blessed it was by an awareness of his presence on occasion, the realities of life were always at hand, always demanding recognition, always demanding acceptance. I had continuously to learn to accept God's will—not as I wished it to be, not as it might have been, but as it actually was at the moment. And it was through the struggle to do this that spiritual growth and a greater appreciation of his will took place.

Ivan's going to die...that's why we follow him...We always follow the doomed ones. The ones who show us the way. The world will follow, no matter what. We just want them to accept that. Go with a little dignity, a little forethought.

To try to fashion something from suffering, to relish our triumphs, and to endure defeats without resentment: all that is compatible with the faith of a heretic.

To apologize for your personal absolutes, for what Sandy Pinter calls your "Core Attachments," means apologizing for your very existence.

Instead of filling in the blanks, I wanted to be blank and be filled in.

Because it is such a powerful force in the world today, the Western Judeo-Christian tradition is often accepted as the arbiter of 'natural' behavior of humans. If Europeans and their descendant nations of North America accept something as normal, then anything different is seen as abnormal. Such a view ignores the great diversity of human experience.

Whereas each man claims his freedom as a matter of right, the freedom he accords to other men is a matter of toleration.

He seemed to be buffeted from both sides, challenged by his dreams, which revolted at the compromises of reality, and assaulted by reality which denounced the emptiness of all dreams. He seemed to spend himself in that struggle - the severest that a man can face; and he seemed to win by a constant renewal of effort in which he refused to sink either into placid acceptance of the world, or into self-contained satisfaction with his vision.

Aber was interessiert mich der Schnee von morgen? Ich bin mit der Bewältigung und Vergangenheit so gut ausgelastet, dass ich nicht auch noch wissen muss, was mir in der Zukunft blüht.

Rumo!" said Rumo. "That's right!" Smyke exclaimed. "You Rumo, me Smyke." "You Rumo, me Smyke." Rumo repeated eagerly. "No, no." Smyke chuckled.

Je weniger qualvoll die Todesart, desto weniger attraktiv die Tiere. Wenn du friedlich an Altersschwäche stirbst, siehst du nur ein Huhn. Das letzte Huhn. Es gackert, und du bist hinüber.

Wer einmal gelernt hat, in der Melancholie zu Hause zu sein, der kann es selbst in der schlechtesten aller Welten aushalten. Gute Lektüre, schwarzen Humor und gesunde, gut abgehangene Melancholie, mehr braucht man eigentlich nicht.

Das Leben, mein Junge, ist nicht nur eine wilde, schöne Reise. Leben, das heißt auch: dem Tod bei der Arbeit zuzusehen. Das ist das Härteste überhaupt! Das muss man aushalten können. Bist du bereit, das auszuhalten, mein Junge?

Mein Freund erkannte tatsächlich, daß es so nicht weiterging, wenn er nicht in einer Zwangsjacke enden wollte. Er sah ein, daß er sich mehr den weltlichen Dingen zuwenden mußte. Also verließ er seine Wahngebäude, ließ sie zu wunderschönen Ruinen verfallen, die er nur noch selten aufsuchte. Und er konzentrierte sich nun auf das, was ihn umgab.