Quotes About Acceptance

After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.

Hearts are made to be broken.

Man is almost mad—mad because he is seeking something which he has already got; mad because he's not aware of who he is; mad because he hopes, desires and then ultimately, feels frustrated. Frustration is bound to be there because you cannot find yourself by seeking; you are already there. The seeking has to stop, the search has to drop....

Be — don't try to become

Don't say this is good and that is bad. Drop all discrimination. Accept everything as it is.

Whatever happened yesterday was the past.

A man who is afraid of death will be afraid of life also, because life brings death. If you are afraid of the enemy and you close your door, the friend will also be prohibited.

I am wearied to death with life. There's nothing it has that I want, but I celebrate my naked earth, there's no other world to descant.

I want you now so awfully, No longer jealous-green, I bring myself as offering Up to the guillotine.

No pido tolerancia porque me parece una boludez. [...] La tolerancia es el prejuicio pero más light. Pedir tolerancia es aceptar que algo estás haciendo mal.

He can crumple me up or exalt me, He can do anything He chooses.

I am blind to the very things that make for our own peace.

It takes God a long time to get us to stop thinking that unless everyone sees things exactly as we do, they must be wrong.

If the Spirit of God detects anything in you that is wrong, He does not ask you to put it right; He asks you to accept the light, and He will put it right.

If the Spirit of God detects anything in you that is wrong, He doesn't ask you to make it right; He only asks you to accept the light of truth, and then He will make it right.

Receiving Yourself in the Fires of Sorrow

We say that there ought to be no sorrow, but thereis sorrow, and we have to accept and receive ourselves in its fires. If we try to evade sorrow, refusing to deal with it, we are foolish. Sorrow is one of the biggest facts in life, and there is no use in saying it should not be. Sin, sorrow, and suffering are, and it is not for us to say that God has made a mistake in allowing them.

The love of God pays no attention to my prejudices caused by my natural individuality.

One of the penalties of sin is our acceptance of it. It is not only God who punishes for sin, but sin establishes itself in the sinner and takes its toll.

But I cannot make myself right with God; I cannot make my life perfect. I can only be right with God if I accept the atonement of the Lord Jesus Christ as an absolute gift.

One thing is certain—He will never throw our past failures back in our faces.

We should quit asking ourselves, "Am I of any use?" and accept the truth that we really are not of much use to Him. The issue is never of being of use, but of being of value to God Himself. Once we are totally surrendered to God, He will work through us all the time.