Quotes About Acceptance

Truly, truly, I tell you, we speak of what we know, and we testify to what we have seen, and yet you people do not accept our testimony.

John replied, “A man can receive only what is given him from heaven.

He testifies to what He has seen and heard, yet no one accepts His testimony.

Whoever accepts His testimony has certified that God is truthful.

When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.”

“You are a Jew,” said the woman. “How can You ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)

Now He Himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own hometown.

nor does His word abide in you, because you do not believe the One He sent.

I do not accept glory from men,

I have come in My Fatherís name, and you have not received Me; but if someone else comes in his own name, you will receive him.

But as I stated, you have seen Me and still you do not believe.

Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never drive away.

On hearing it, many of His disciples said, “This is a difficult teaching. Who can accept it?”

Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you are unable to accept My message.

His parents answered, “We know he is our son, and we know he was born blind.

Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever receives the one I send receives Me, and whoever receives Me receives the One who sent Me.”

As they traveled along the road and came to some water, the eunuch said, “Look, here is water! What is there to prevent me from being baptized?”

When Saul arrived in Jerusalem, he tried to join the disciples, but they were all afraid of him, not believing that he was a disciple.

The voice spoke to him a second time: “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.”

So Peter invited them in as his guests. And the next day he got ready and went with them, accompanied by some of the brothers from Joppa.

As Peter talked with him, he went inside and found many people gathered together.

He said to them, “You know how unlawful it is for a Jew to associate with a foreigner or visit him. But God has shown me that I should not call any man impure or unclean.

Then Peter began to speak: “I now truly understand that God does not show favoritism,

but welcomes those from every nation who fear Him and do what is right.