Quotes About Acceptance

If we forgive God for his crime against us, which is to have made us finite creatures, He will forgive our crime against him, which is that we are finite creatures.

God loves people because of who God is, not because of who we are.

God's forgiveness extends to the worst offenders and to anyone who wishes to receive it-not because of who we are, but because of who He is.

The verb 'highly favored' (Luke 1:28) is the same as 'made us accepted' in Ephesians 1:6, referring to all of God's children. All true believers have been 'highly graced' by the Lord.

Accepting God's acceptance of me doesn't mean I'm going to stop trying. It means I'm going to stop trying out. And I am intentionally redirecting my obsession.

Weak leaders of churches blame people and circumstances. Breakout church leaders accept responsibility and see God's possibilities in even difficult situations.

I know I am at the end. I shall never get better, dear.

I can't see what God's plan is. I just know I've got to live with it.

Let us be what God likes, so long as we are His, and let us not be what we want to be, if it is against his intention.

... The wise in all ages... have tried to learn one thing only, and that was resignation to the Will of God. By doing this, they have reached a stage at which they could see from God's point of view.

I learned that the purpose of the Twelve Steps is to do the will of God.

Thank God I never got in a fight. All of the jock dudes hated me, but all of their girlfriends thought I was nice so they wouldn't touch me. It was infuriating to them.

But by the grace of God I am what I am

In cold and heat, in rain and wind, the soul united to God says, "I want it to be warm, to be cold, windy, to rain, because God wills it."

This world is bad enough maybe; We do not comprehend it; But in one fact can all agree God won't, and we can't mend it.

A ragamuffin knows he's only a beggar at the door of God's mercy.

Who are we to ask God if it is his will.

If you are a child of God, you don't lose your status if you have a bad week.

Only the gospel can truly save you. The gospel doesn't make bad people good; it makes dead people alive...the gospel is God's acceptance of us based on what Christ has done, not on what we can do.

The gospel announces that God doesn't relate to us based on our feats for Jesus, but Jesus' feats for us.

Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.

I am always content with what happens; for I know that what God chooses is better than what I choose.

All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.

Enjoy the blessings of this day, if God sends them; and the evils of it bear patiently and sweetly: for this day only is ours, we are dead to yesterday, and we are not yet born to the morrow.