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Quotes About Acceptance

The best kind of love is one that brings out the best in you and doesn't try to make you be someone other than yourself
~ Karon Waddell
It would be nice if I did have a good relationship with my family, and yes, part of me longs to have a mum and dad who love and accept me for who I am. But if they never do, it's OK.
~ Heather Graham
To be free of belief and unbelief is my religion.
~ Omar Khayyam
What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace.
~ John Wesley
Each person is sacred, no matter what his or her culture, religion, handicap, or fragility. Each person is created in God's image; each one has a heart, a capacity to love and to be loved.
~ Jean Vanier
Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?
~ Epicurus
We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die.
~ W. H. Auden
There's no race, no religion, no class system, no color - nothing - no sexual orientation, that makes us better than anyone else. We're all deserving of love.
~ Sandra Bullock
This religion (Islam) recognizes all men as brothers. It accepts all human beings as equals before God, and as equal members in the Human Family of Mankind.
~ Malcolm X
Race, gender, religion, sexuality, we are all people and that's it. We're all people. We're all equal.
~ Connor Franta
I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else.
~ Simon Hoggart
Perhaps the saddest thing to admit is that those who rejected the Cross have to carry it, while those who welcomed it are so often engaged in crucifying others.
~ Nikolai Berdyaev
Religion is love; in no case is it logic.
~ Beatrice Webb
Hate the sin, love the sinner.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
A Christian telling an atheist they're going to hell is as scary as a child telling an adult they're not getting any presents from Santa.
~ Ricky Gervais
Claiming that someone's marriage is against your religion is like being angry at someone for eating a donut because you're on a diet.
~ Seth Rogen
Suggesting I hate people with religion because I hate religion is like suggesting I hate people with cancer because I hate cancer.
~ Ricky Gervais
Of one thing we can be certain: every person we see - no matter the race, religion, political beliefs, body type, or appearance - is family.
~ Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Religion is, by definition, interpretation; and by definition, all interpretations are valid. However, some interpretations are more reasonable than others.
~ Reza Aslan
To have a positive religion is not necessary. To be in harmony with yourself and the universe is what counts, and this is possible without positive and specific formulation in words.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
~ Thomas Carlyle
A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.
~ Mark Twain
Cosmic love is absolutely Ruthless and Highly Indifferent: it teaches its lessons whether you like/ dislike them or not.
~ John C. Lilly
I, personally, am unable to accept any revealed religion, Christian or not.
~ Bronislaw Malinowski