Quotes About Acceptance

You can't fix something until you admit it's broken.

4. Talk with the irrational person, leaning into his crazy by entering his world calmly and with intention.

Practice moving quickly from: Oh fuck! (reaction) to Oh God! (emotional release) to Oh Jeez (re-centre yourself) to Oh well (re-focus) to OK (you are ready to fix this)

I don't remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You finally admit that this is who you are, you come out and hope that no one runs away.

God can handle your scars. So can any genuine, loving Christian.

Understanding and truly accepting God's forgiveness is the incubator to a meaningful walk with Jesus. As we escape the dregs of compromise to walk in purity and obedience, we are free to grow on God's timetable if we ignore the lies of the unholy world. And only by avoiding faulty human logic can we give our lives over to the seeming risk of a God who is actually unable to be anything but faithful.

Church is the place to be broken together.

They gave themselves up to the stars the way swimmers can surrender to the waves, and the stars took them without resistance.

All I can hope to do is instill great morality in my son and trust him along the way. The music he listens to or how he chooses to wear his hair doesn't define his moral compass, and if he wants to listen to country music and wear a cowboy hat too, that's fine.

Always accept good fortune with grace and humility.

Our assignment is to make sure people can see Jesus clearly. This is the very reason we must meet them where they arc-consumer mentality and all. We must greet them with unconditional acceptance and respect. This is how people will begin to see Jesus clearly. Our goal should be to do anything and everything that helps our guests see Christ. Since

Our very human to simplify and seek one answer may explain our ongoing difficulty in recognizing impending synergy and acting before systems collapse. We are prone to accept death by a thousand little cuts, in which one degraded aspect of our environment or health becomes familiar and accepted as normal--and then another.

When faced with life's most challenging events, it's okay not to be okay.

This being 1962, no one thought it odd to have a mime program on radio.

Whatever it takes to break your heart and wake you up is grace.

You don't actually get over things… you incorporate them. They become part of everything you are. I don't mean that you walk about crying all the time. But you change.

joy is not just about being happy. Joy is a rigorous spiritual practice of saying yes to life on life's terms

To see your-self you must first be yourself, to be your-self you must first know yourself, and to know your-self you must first love your-self more than anything in the world."-Mark Miller

Those who truly love us will never knowingly ask us to be other than we are

If I dare to hear you I will feel you like the sun And grow in your direction.

We are broken open, or we willfully shed.

In a world that lives like a fist mercy is not more than waking with your hands open.

Motormouth: So this is love? Well, love is a gift and a lot of people forget that. So you two better brace yourselves for a whole lot of ugly coming your way on a never ending train of stupid. Penny: So you met my mom?

How could you ever feel comfortable if no matter where you went you felt like you belonged someplace else?