Quotes About Acceptance

Why didn't you make me good enough...so you could have loved me?

Our faithfulness to Christ is clearly and unmistakably demonstrated by the degree to which we have accepted and granted forgiveness.

Words can be the tonic that kills regrets before they have a chance to grow.

We are never so loving toward others as when we have learned to be loving toward ourselves.

Admitting that you're broken truly is the first step to getting fixed.

All problems are not results of sin; many are simply results of reality.

tempers the wind to the shorn lamb,' or in other words, that He renders the worst of human conditions tolerable, while He permits the best, to be nothing better than tolerable.

Those who rejected it wholesale, as Agassiz did, consigned themselves to increasing irrelevance. AGASSIZ

Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.

And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have. Good and bad.

I don't want to be somebody's crush. If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am.

She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time.

All Dogs Go To Heaven? Sorry, kids. It's only the dogs who've accepted Christ.

God has fixed the time for my death. I do not concern myself about that, but to be always ready, no matter when it may overtake me. That is the way all men should live, and then all would be equally brave.

Deep in midlife I had begun to feel the awful burden of wanting to be special; wanting to be better; wanting to experience every possible adventure in this life; wanting to be, as we have sometimes said at Kripalu, an "expanded self." Oh, for God's sake. It is just too damned much work to be an expanded self. Couldn't I just be an ordinary self?

For the sake of God, boy, let go of all this obsessive worry and fretting. You are powerless over such a mess." (Quote from Father Bede)

experience over there. That experience looks very pleasant. Let's go there." The aversive mind, on the other hand, says, "I hate the way it is right now. This is very, very unpleasant. Get me out of here!" The aversive mind pushes away the unpleasant.

Krishna would continue. He would teach Mom that grasping and aversion are twins: They are mirror images of each other. They both involve a rejection of how it is in this moment. The grasping mind says, "I long for that

When [God] is moving you toward a new consciousness, you need to recognize the winds of change at once, move with them instead of clinging to what is already gone." Wow.

OK: It's exactly the same teaching with aversion. Go into it. Go into your anger, your fear. Feel it in the body. Get to know it. Find the energy at its heart. Find the secret gift at its center. Don't be afraid. Let it wash over you. Know it.

see yourself as the smallest of the small. Then you can make room for the whole world.

These are strange days, knowing that I have moved into Destiny, knowing I am in exactly the right place, agonizing as it is." No war here whatsoever.

de Caussade, Abandonment