Quotes About Acceptance

We are accountable because we are sinful. The unfortunate truth is that Adam chose to sin, and so do we. But the good news is that God gives us a way out, through Christ. Accountability and forgiveness in one shot. All we have to do is accept it. It's pretty easy.

You're enough, and you're loved because God says so. Nothing else.

I know grace is difficult to accept... it's in our nature to want to bargain for our redemption... but you can do nothing but receive it.

Life doesn't have to be perfect to be happy. Sometimes you have to find the happy places between the pain.

True Love--unconditional love--declares you worthy just because it chooses you. (pg 150)

God wants to break through the identities we've constructed for ourselves, the fears we have of discovery, to say, "I see you. I know you. I know everything about you, and yet I love you. Period. You don't have to fear the truth with Me because I already know it. I know exactly who you are, and I still died to save you.

Maybe that's why her flat in New York City had never felt like home. Because deep down, Vivien longed to be somewhere where people knew her. Somewhere she belonged.

But love says it doesn't matter. True love - unconditional love - declares you worthy just because it chooses you. And there's nothing you can do about it.

You have to embrace the life you have, not the one you expected you'd have - or the one others expect you to have.

Life is full of surprises, so you may as well get used to it.

You want to fix what hurts the moment it starts hurting, but this time you're going to have to embrace the slowness of healing. You'll never be able to live with this part of your story until you realize you must make peace with what happened to you and your part in it. And that takes time.

He could not know that thoughts are not things you can give or not give. Thoughts are thrust upon you. You can only hope that thoughts that you don't want will tire of you at some point and flutter away.

Our flaws are obvious, yet we are loved and able to love, if we choose, because there is that bit of the divine still smoldering in us.

Sometimes asking God for a reason for something is like asking Him why the sky is blue. There is a complex, scientific reason for it, Claire, but most children, including you, are content with knowing it is blue because it is. If we understood everything about everything, we would have no need for faith.

This is how it is for all of us. Life will send us across a bridge we did not want to cross, but when we finally open our eyes on the other side, we see that there had been nothing to fear at all.

Love is not blind—it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Don't borrow tomorrow's burdens, my gram used to say.

She wanted to wake up in the arms of the angels and have them tell her she was worthy of love -- to give it and to have it given to her.

People who say everything happens for a reason usually say that only when they agree with the reason.

Sometimes what you want is given to you in a way that is so very different from how you had pictured getting it

But heaven seems a place where truth cannot hurt. Here, the truth can be devastating.

Everyone has a past, and everyone's past matters.

Death doesn't ever look at shoulda, though, does it? Death looks at nothing. It just does what it's meant to do.

have learned this is her way of coming to terms with events she cannot control. We all have to find a way to do that, don't we?