Quotes About Acceptance

Without God's power to "compel" or to change the will, no one would decide to accept the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Those whom God has chosen will accept God the way he is, and worship him for his sovereignty and righteousness. Others will prefer a God of their own imagination, and for this they will be condemned.

as Paul puts it, "The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned" (1 Corinthians 2:14).

If you are different from the rest of the flock, they bite you

There is no such thing as an ugly woman.

I wish they would take me as I am.

I shouldn't precisely have chosen madness if there had been any choice, but once such a thing has taken hold of you, you can't very well get out of it.

Both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets – neither of us have any.

One must seize the reality of one's fate and that's that.

But one doesn't expect out of life what one has already learned that it cannot give, but rather one begins to see more and more clearly that life is only a kind of sowing time, and the harvest is not here.

All the same, I'm sure that if one is brave then recovery comes from within, through complete acceptance of suffering and death, and through the surrender of one's will and love of self. But that's no good to me, I like to paint, to see people and things and everything that makes our life—artificial, if you like. Yes, real life would be something else, but I don't think I belong to that category of souls who are ready to live, and also ready to suffer, at any moment.

But what is it to me whether my chance is slight or great? I mean, must I consider this when I love? No—no reckoning; one loves because one loves. Then we keep our heads clear, and do not cloud our minds, nor do we hide our feelings, nor smother the fire and light, but simply say: Thank God, I love.

Enfim, é preciso que eu tente levar as coisas um pouco mais passivamente e ter paciência

E eu me deixarei ir não sem reflexão, mas sem insistir em lamentar coisas que poderiam ter acontecido.

Aqui, exceto a liberdade, exceto muitas outras coisas que eu gostaria que fossem diferentes, não estou muito mal.

O que você quer? Sofrer sem reclamar é a única lição que se deve aprender nesta vida.

Penso em aceitar decididamente minha profissão de louco, assim como Degas tomou a forma de um escrivão.

Fortunately for me, I do not hanker after victory any more, and all that I seek in painting is a way to make life bearable.

Your life would be empty indeed if you didn't regret anything.

Ludilo je spasonosno, jer ?ovek možda postaje manje isklju?iv.

To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life

It's better to have a gay life of it than to commit suicide.

The trick was learning to live without the grief and without the guilt. The trick was to create a life worth living, a life no longer conscious of death.

What is it that draws us back to the broken places? Maybe