Quotes About Acceptance

who that guy says I am. I'm not who that girl says I am. I'm not who social media likes and comments say I am. I'm not who the grades, to-do lists, messes, and mess ups say I am. I'm not who the scale says I am or the sum total of what my flaws say I am. I'm going to stop flirting with the unstable things of this world so I can fall completely in love with You. I am loved. I am held. I am Yours. I am forever Yours.

The need to belong goes beyond the need for superficial social ties . . . it is a need for meaningful, profound bonding.

The lack of belongingness causes various undesirable effects, including a decrease in the levels of health, happiness, and adjustment.1

when someone of great significance in our lives makes us feel like our belonging is more of a question mark than a security blanket, we become very sensitive to even the slightest hints of rejection.

With that said, maybe it's time to release back to God what we can't change so we can discover what He has for us now.

But, instead of wallowing in what I can't have, I'm making the choice to celebrate what I can have.

Rejection isn't just an emotional feeling. It's a message that alters what you believe about yourself.

What happened yesterday can't be changed, but it can be forgiven. That's your miracle in the mess. The voices of condemnation, shame, and rejection can come at you, but they don't have to reside in you. That's your miracle in the mess.

am a Jesus girl who can step on the scale and see the numbers as an indication of how much my body weighs and not as an indication of my worth.

In light of God's deep affection, we no longer have to live in fear of rejection. The

We'll tell you all about our broken places of yesterday but don't dare admit the limitations of our today.

Girls who have the lingering whispers of rejection still echoing in the hollows of their soul rarely feel completely held safe.

With the fullness of God, we are free to let humans be humans—fickle and fragile and forgetful.

I'm not equipped to handle what she has, both good and bad--and what she has is always a package deal of both.

Sip the shame so you won't have to guzzle the regret." In other words, taste a little bit of the shame of letting it all rip before you find yourself drowning in gallons of unwanted regret.

I have allowed myself to believe that to be stripped of all the props and pretensions and accolades and approvals is to be stripped of the best parts of me. When in reality what's best about me comes to the forefront when I'm closest to the way God created me, naked and unashamed. To stand naked and unashamed is the way of the garden life.

What numbs us imprisons us.

Rejection isn't just an emotional feeling. It's a message that alters what you believe about yourself. And the minute you sense that happening is the minute you must stop the runaway thinking with truth.

Just because you…achieve what you always thought would make you feel special does not fix that deep-down internal insecurity. External achievement never equals internal acceptance.

This wasn't really about the scale or what clothing size I was; it was about this battle that raged in my heart.

Anytime we feel not good enough we deny the powerful truth that we are a glorious work of God in progress. We are imperfect because we are unfinished.

The resulting hurt of any form of rejection can linger and entangle us from moving forward if we don't put it behind us.

You can't edit reality to try and force healing. You can't fake yourself into being okay with what happened. But you can decide that the one who hurt you doesn't get to decide what you do with your memories. Your life can be a graceful combination of beautiful and painful.

I realized that neither Paul nor Barnabas were bad people. They were good people. But they weren't good together. And that's okay. It's so much healthier to be brave enough to go your separate ways than to keep stuffing and drown in a sea of bitterness.