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Quotes About Acceptance

Love might have expanded her. But we are not all of us going to get loved. We are not all of us going to get expanded.
~ Martin Amis
God made so many different kinds of people. Why would he allow only one way to serve him?
~ Martin Buber
Rabbi Heshel said: "A man should be like a vessel that willingly receives what its owner pours into it, whether it be wine or vinegar.
~ Martin Buber
Man wishes to be confirmed in his being by man, and wishes to have a presence in the being of the other…. Secretly and bashfully he watches for a YES which allows him to be and which can come to him only from one human person to another.
~ Martin Buber
The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness." .
~ Martin Esslin
If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.
~ Martin Heidegger
Forgive your child and yourself nightly. You didn't ask to live with the effects of ADHD any more than did your child.
~ Unknown
Every successful brand stands for something more than itself, and that thing is emotional. A great brand promises hope, the contagion of coolness, or desirability, or love, or romance, or acceptance, or luxury, or youth, or sophistication, or high-quality technology.
~ Martin Lindstrom
A parallel imperative cause for accepting the message was the Messenger himself, a man who was, they were certain, too full of truth to deceive and too full of wisdom to be self-deceived.
~ Unknown
If God were willing to sell His grace, we would accept it more quickly and gladly than when He offers it for nothing.
~ Martin Luther
If I go back home to Wittenberg, I'll lie down in a coffin and give the maggots a fat doctor to eat.
~ Martin Luther
faith alone makes all other works good, acceptable and worthy
~ Martin Luther
God's approval isn't based on what a person does. Rather, he accepts what a person does because he already approves of the person. The person hasn't earned God's approval through the good that he or she does. Because
~ Martin Luther
In addition, when these men were confronted, they did not stubbornly persist in their sins but repented. Paul commands that we should accept, instruct, and restore such people (Galatians 6:1). So those who sin and fall because of weakness will not be refused forgiveness if they stand up again and do not persist in their sin. Persisting in sin is disastrous.
~ Martin Luther
the Lord has freed us from great evils to which we have been subjected, and that we have accepted many good things by faith.
~ Martin Luther
Sinners are attractive because they are loved; they are not loved because they are attractive.
~ Martin Luther
I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.
~ Unknown
Liberalism provided me with an intellectual satisfaction that I never found in fundamentalism. I became so enamored of the insights of liberalism that I almost fell into the trap of accepting uncritically everything it encompassed.
~ Unknown
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
~ Unknown
The Christian faith makes it possible for us nobly to accept that which cannot be changed, and to meet disappointments and sorrow with an inner poise, and to absorb the most intense pain without abandoning our sense of hope.
~ Unknown
Elle n'avait pas de réponse, mais, même si c'était un peu effrayant, ce n'était pas grave. Les réponses sont un frein à la croissance et à la connaissance.
~ Unknown
Teoria mea … teoria mea este c? e mai bine s? mori cât? vreme nu È›i-a luat viaÈ›a totul. Trebuie s? p?strezi muniÈ› ii, energie pentru moarte È™i s? nu ajungi acolo complet golit, ca b?trânii ??tia acriÈ›i si nefericiÈ›i.
~ Unknown
I had drunk so deeply of grief and innocently gambled so hard with fate and irony that a special kind of vision was gathering in my eyes, not entirely clear just yet. This was the same look people saw in your eyes when you have died for beauty and come to live accepting nature as life with no promise of paradise, and mad at people who couldn't see that.
~ Martin Prechtel
There are two kinds of power you have to fight. The first is the money, and that's just our system. The other is the people close around you, knowing when to accept their criticism, knowing when to say no.
~ Martin Scorsese