Quotes About Acceptance

Unwilling to play the hand that is dealt [to] him, the borderline keeps folding every time, losing his ante, waiting to be dealt four aces. If he cannot be assured of winning, he won't play out the hand. Improvement comes when he learns to accept the hand for what it is, and recognize that, skillfully played, he can still win.

he who claims to believe in Christ must rejoice in all Christ's judgments.

Why should I strive to swim against the current, and not rather ask pardon?

I feel that I have to do everything better just to be judged as okay. It is something I wish I could let go of. It's something that I wish just wasn't there.

True hope has no room for delusion.

But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand.

It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.

I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck.

Life is a thing to be lived, not spent; to be faced, not ordered. Life is not a game of chess, the victory to the most knowing; it is a game of cards, one's hand by skill to be made the best of.

Don't look to the past in anger nor the future in fear, but around in awareness. —J

The sin of worldliness is a preoccupation with the things of this temporal life. It's accepting and going along with the views and practices of society around us without discerning if they are biblical. I believe that the key to our tendencies toward worldliness lies primarily in the two words "going along". We simply go along with the values and practices of society.

Anxiety is a sin also because it is a lack of acceptance of God's providence in our lives.

James Hufstetler is again helpful to us when he said, "You will never really enjoy other people, you will never have stable emotions, you will never lead a life of godly contentment, you will never conquer jealousy and love others as you should until you thank God for making you the way he did."[ 3]

They find it difficult to accept that both calamities and good things come from God.

Often unwilling to accept the fact that God is working because they don't understand how He is working, they have chosen to substitute the doctrine of chance for the doctrine of divine providence.

But when we complain about the weather, we are actually complaining against God who sent us our weather.

when we complain about the weather, we are actually complaining against God

God owes me no explanation. He has the right to do what He wants, when He wants, and how He wants. Why? Because He's God. . .

So we should never ask why in the sense of demanding that God explain or justify His actions or what He permits in our lives.

For us that is not a particularly striking event, but for a Muslim country to allow a Christian school to remain open when others were closed was indeed unusual.

I'm accepted by God, not on the basis of my personal performance, but on the basis of the infinitely perfect righteousness of Jesus Christ.

The converse truth is that love gives validity to my actions and makes them acceptable to God. I

to stop asking why.

Just as we should learn to stop asking why, or searching for rational explanations, or seeking to discover what "good" there is in our own adversities, so we must also learn to quiet our hearts in regard to God's government of the universe.