Quotes About Acceptance

I'd like to be settled into somewhat of a normal life. Somewhat. I know it's never going to be completely normal.

I realize I'm black, but id like to be viewed as a person, and that is everybody's wish.

To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

It must be nice, Queenie thought, to be one thing or another, to know where you belonged.

We who choose to surround ourselves with lives even more temporary than our own live within a fragile circle, easily and often breached. Unable to accept its awful gaps, we still would live no other way. —Irving Townshend, Separate Lives

Las personas entran y salen de nuestra de vida. Nunca llegamos a enterarnos de cuándo y cómo llegan, ni tampoco de cuándo y cómo se van. Simplemente, aprendemos de ello, lo sobrellevamos como podemos y seguimos adelante. Así es como funciona. Y eso es lo que tienes que hacer tú ahora.

When a prophet is accepted and deified, his message is lost. The prophet is only useful so long as he is stoned as a public nuisance, calling us to repentance, disturbing our comfortable routines, breaking our respectable idols, shattering our sacred conventions."7 We will always have a love-hate relationship with the prophets.

He was rejected; we want to be respected. He was regarded as radical; we want to be recognized as reasonable. He was accused of having demons; we are acclaimed for having degrees. He was put out; we long to be taken in. He put no stock in the praise of man; we thrive on it. Is it any wonder we make so little impact here for Him?

What an unusual rabbi! Today we often hear about the importance of being "inclusive," but what people often mean by inclusion is, "Accept me as I am and affirm me as I am." (I call this "affirmational inclusion.") Yeshua did something much better. He practiced what I call "transformational inclusion": he met people where they were and changed them.

This level of emotional integration is only possible when we decrease our pain and discomfort to a point where we view all emotion as "energy in motion," instead of deeming some emotions as threatening and to be avoided, while we find others so seductive that we are driven uncontrollably into activity because of them.

To reign in life is to know that you are right with God. It is to know that God is not mad at you but mad about you. It is to know that He is happy with you, approving of you, and pleased with you. It is to know that His love is toward you constantly and His favor continually upon you. To reign in life is to live totally free from crippling guilt and condemnation with an awareness that your right standing before God can never change!4

We are accepted because of Jesus, and that's the ground of our security. Now it is our holy privilege to walk worthy of that high calling, drawing near to God in confidence, "with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water" (Heb. 10:22).

Good-bye—if you hear of my being stood up against a Mexican stone wall and shot to rags please know that I think that a pretty good way to depart this life. It beats old age, disease, or falling down the cellar stairs. —AMBROSE BIERCE

You can't see reality. You never could: You just distort the truth until you end up with a version you can live with.

But I knew better: No matter where you go, the past floods back. You can try like the dickens, but you can't escape fate.

I wondered if small town people became smaller in order to fit. Perhaps they had to.

When the heart Is cut or cracked or broken Do not clutch it Let the wound lie open Let the wind From the good old sea blow in To bathe the wound with salt And let it sting. Let a stray dog lick it Let a bird lean in the hole and sing A simple song like a tiny bell And let it ring Let it go. Let it out. Let it all unravel. Let it free and it can be A path on which to travel.

Life is offensive and refuses to apologise

There are only two feelings. Love and fear. There are only two languages. Love and fear. There are only two activities. Love and fear.

Yet for the evangelical left, with humor as with everything else, if it's not for everyone then it's not for anyone.

If people knew that I really am what I say I am,' he said, 'you know they'd never forgive me.' 'Don't worry,' I said, 'Your lack of a secret is safe with us.

You have to accept gifts occasionally, because there are some things you can't give yourself

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

There are still normal people around, they just changed the definition of normal