Quotes About Acceptance

If I'm not willing to feel the pain of life, how can I ever expect to feel the joy

Nobody deserves forgiveness, Will. That's the point. That's what grace is.

There's no expiration date on second chances.

There was a part of her that cried out, 'Am I good enough yet?' but who was she hoping would answer that question?

The past is a foreign country -- and increasingly I don't want to visit.

what's done is done", that the past cannot be changed, and that the future can be changed because it is "open". To

As far as I was concerned, there was nothing wrong with being an odd duck. I figured some people have edges that don't allow them to slot neatly into the holes society expects them to fit into, that was all.

I knew that I had been partially right in the storeroom above the bar on Christmas Day. Whoever I had become had to die.

Even the incorruptible are corruptible if they cannot accept the possibility of being mistaken. Infallibility is a sin in any man. All laws can be broken and are. Often.

My own belief is that two adults are allowed to love who they want, and if you don't agree with that, you are a narrow-minded shitfuck and we can't be friends.

Every family possesses at least one off-the-charts challenging person. If you're tempted to tell me that yours doesn't, then I hate to be the one to break it to you, but maybe you are the one!

Feelings are much like waves. We can't stop them from coming, but we can choose which one to surf. —Jonatan Mårtensson

El primer paso para llegar a vencer la vergüenza consiste en aceptar lo que no podemos cambiar.

Through years of maturing, I've learned that it's not our job to force our beliefs down others' throats until they echo back what we want to hear. No, our job is to challenge their categories by doing the same things Jesus did: loving them, challenging them, accepting them, and forgiving them.

Al elegir a sus amigos, Jesús se rodeaba de los solitarios, los quebrantados, los ignorados por la sociedad. Dios te está llamando a formar parte de su iglesia, a ser su iglesia. Si no te consideras lo suficiente bueno, eres exactamente la persona que él está buscando.

maybe we should think about whether some imperfections might be a good thing. Maybe we should consider whether we're trying too hard to smooth all the rough edges.

Is there something that those who are closest to you have been trying to tell you? Maybe you have an addiction, a hang-up, a weakness, a blind spot. If more than one person who loves you has been trying to help you see something that needs to change, maybe it's time to listen.

We're living for Likes, but we're longing for love.

Feelings are much like waves. We can't stop them from coming, but we can choose which one to surf.

And there is nothing you can do to make God love you less. Love is not something God does. It is who God is. And because of who he is, God loves you. Period.

Life has trained many of us to think of love as temporary and conditional.

When we truly know God, rather than living ashamed of our past of doubting God's love for us, we can daily enjoy his grace and unconditional love and acceptance. As our faith and prayer life grows, we'll see his goodness—even in our trials—and grow to forgive as he has freely forgiven us.

When he chose friends, Jesus surrounded himself with the lonely, the broken, and the overlooked. God is calling you to be a part of his church, to be his church. If you don't feel like you're good enough, then you're exactly who he's looking for.

Or maybe they just accept that it's wrong in God's eyes, although not in their own, and they'll worry about sorting it out later.