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Quotes About Acceptance

Show a little faith there is magic in the night. You ain't a beauty, but hey you're alright, and that's alright with me.
~ Bruce Springsteen
The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.
~ Ralph Marston
You have to accept the plan and realize that if you slip, and you might, you can't use that as a reason to give up or stop.
~ Jennifer Hudson
Faith in God includes Faith in God's timing.
~ Neal A. Maxwell
We are obliged to love one another. We are not strictly bound to "like" one another.
~ Thomas Merton
Buddhism has a very beautiful teaching that says the worst thing you can do to your soul is to tell someone their faith is wrong.
~ Ricky Martin
We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired.
~ Bill W.
Strong faith in the Savior is submissively accepting of His will and timing in our lives, even if the outcome is not what we hoped for or wanted.
~ David A. Bednar
Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous.
~ Will Durant
The way you are with others every day, regardless of their status, is the true test of faith.
~ Brennan Manning
Honey, nobody ever knows someone completely. You have to just enjoy what you do know and have faith in the rest.
~ Unknown
People in every country should be free to choose and live their faith based upon the persuasion of the mind, and the heart, and the soul. This tolerance is essential for religion to thrive.
~ Barack Obama
Everybody shall be accepted no matter what they stand for, you are not always going to agree on their faith.
~ Malcolm X
Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
~ C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
Devotion is diligence without assurance. Faith is a way of saying "Yes, I pre-accept the terms of the universe and I embrace in advance what I am presently incapable of understanding.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
I am truly grateful that faith enables me to move past the question of 'Why?'
~ Zig Ziglar
To try to fashion something from suffering, to relish our triumphs, and to endure defeats without resentment: all that is compatible with the faith of a heretic.
~ Walter Kaufmann
My effort should never be to undermine another's faith but to make him a better follower of his own faith.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Some theists in evolutionary science acquiesce to these tacit rules and retain a personal faith while accepting a thoroughly naturalistic picture of physical reality.
~ Phillip E. Johnson
Indifference to one's own faith is no proof of tolerance. Loyalty to one's own is part of a larger loyalty to faith generally.
~ Abba Hillel Silver
The only way faith can be relevant is by preparing the mind to receive it.
~ Marshall Sylver
When you say "Yes" to something, you include something you do want in your experience. When you say "No" to something, you include something you don't want in your experience.
~ Esther Hicks
Some of my cronies call me a pessimist and a decadent, but there is always a background of faith behind resignation.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
Faith is facing reality without being discouraged by it.
~ Rick Warren