Quotes About Acceptance

If you have been freed from needing success and acclaim to feel good about yourself, you know grace has visited you.

The smart kid teases the dumb kid. The athlete makes fun of the kid with two left feet. Something is so wrong inside us that we can't even handle blessing properly.

your acceptance is based on Christ's righteousness and not yours.

DECEMBER 25 Jesus was despised and rejected in the here and now so that you would have the Father's love and acceptance forever.

Whatever sits on the other side of your "if-only" is where you are looking for life, peace, joy, hope,

When you begin to understand what you have been given in his right here, right now grace, you quit asking people, places, and things to be your savior. Because you know what he thinks of you, you are free to worry less about what the person next to you thinks. That's a freedom many of us could use!

If you obey for a thousand years, you're no more accepted than when you first believed; your acceptance is based on Christ's righteousness and not yours.

You no longer have to hope and pray that someday you will measure up, because Jesus has measured up on your behalf.

True biblical love doesn't just accept you, bless you with patience, and greet your failures with forgiveness. Along with all these things, it works to do everything it can to protect you from the eternal weaknesses of heart that make you susceptible to temptation.

The thought that any fallen human being would be able to perform his or her way into acceptance with God has to be the most insane of all delusions.

If you mourn the fallenness of your world rather than curse its difficulties, you know that grace has visited you.

death is literally all around us. We cannot run and we cannot hide and we have no ability to defeat it. Death lives at our address, and there is no escaping.

No podemos gloriarnos en aquello de lo que nos libera la gracia, sin aceptar también aquello a lo que nos llama.

On your very worst, most rebellious, and most faithless day, you can run into the holy presence of your heavenly Father and he will not turn you away.

If you obey God for a thousand years, you will not have earned more of his acceptance than you were granted the very first moment you believed.

I don't have any ill will toward anybody, except for maybe the people...yeah, the people.

You are good at making sense of most life events in ways that enable you to move on.

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.

We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones.

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

If you don't feel it, flee from it. Go where you are celebrated, not merely tolerated.

Denial is often the first line of defense: refusing to accept that the bad news is true.

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge—and has to content oneself with dreaming.

it is not our fault that we are the way we are with all our drives, passions and aversions.