Quotes About Acceptance

the more capable you are of mourning the loss of the old place and letting go of the pain that lies there. You cannot mourn something that has not died.

being alive means being loved.

When I demand from others what only God can give, I experience pain.

truly accepting love, forgiveness, and healing is often much harder than giving it.

When we accept our complete belovedness, we stop judging ourselves and other people; as a result, other people begin to feel safe with us. When we open the hospitality of our hearts to the Spirit, the Spirit frees us to extend hospitality to our fellow humans and all God's creation. The Spirit's hospitality becomes ours, and we experience the alignment of our will with God's will—a traditional definition of successful discernment.

Hope is not dependent on peace in the land, justice in the world, and success in the business. Hope is willing to leave unanswered questions unanswered and unknown futures unknown. Hope makes you see God's guiding hand not only in the gentle and pleasant moments but also in the shadows of disappointment and darkness.

No one can truly say with certainty where he or she will be ten or twenty years from now. You do not know if you will be free or in captivity, if you will be honored or despised, if you will have many friends or few, if you will be liked or rejected. But when you hold lightly these dreams and fears, you can be open to receive every day as a new day and to live your life as a unique expression of God's love for humankind.

One of the greatest challenges of the spiritual life is to receive God's forgiveness.

Receiving forgiveness requires a total willingness to let God be God and do all the healing, restoring, and renewing.

When people can cease having to be for us everything, we can accept the fact they may still have a gift for us.

Pero el autorrechazo es el peor enemigo de la vida espiritual, porque contradice la voz sagrada que nos dice que somos seres amados por Dios. Ser uno de los amados expresa la verdad central de nuestra existencia

But there are many other voices, voices that are loud, full of promises and very seductive, pushing me to do everything possible to gain acceptance. They deny loudly that love is a totally free gift. It is not very hard for me to know when this is happening. Anger, resentment, jealousy, desire for revenge, lust, greed, antagonisms, and rivalries are the obvious signs that I have left home.

If you believe that you are the beloved, you can offer forgiveness, even when it cannot be received.

Maybe my own deep-rooted fear to be on my own and alone kept me going from person to person, book to book and school to school, anxiously avoiding the pain of accepting the responsibility for my own life.

Every time you do something that comes from your needs for acceptance, affirmation, or affection, and every time you do something that makes these needs grow, you know that you are not with God. These needs will never be satisfied; they will only increase when you yield to them. But every time you do something for the glory of God, you will know God's peace in your heart and find rest there.

The journey from teaching about love to allowing myself to be loved proved much longer than I realized.

To be chosen as the Beloved of God is something radically different. Instead of excluding others, it includes others. Instead of rejecting others as less valuable, it accepts others in their own uniqueness. It is not a competitive, but a compassionate choice.

Yes, God dwells in my innermost being, but how could I accept Jesus' call: "Make your home in me as I make mine in you"? The invitation is clear and unambiguous. To make my home where God had made his, this is the great spiritual challenge. It seemed an impossible task.

Here is a home for you; maybe you need us." All my desires to be useful, successful, and productive revolted.

Our lives can indeed be seen as a process of becoming familiar with death, as a school in the art of dying. I do not mean this in a morbid way. On the contrary, when we see life constantly relativized by death, we can enjoy it for what it is: a free gift.

our brokenness has no other beauty but the beauty that comes from the compassion that surrounds it.

When those you love deeply reject you, leave you, or die, your heart will be broken. But that should not hold you back from loving deeply.

Whether I am the younger son or the elder son, God's only desire is to bring me home.

But when I forget that voice of the first unconditional love, then these innocent suggestions can easily start dominating my life and pull me into the "distant country." It