Quotes About Accepted

The gospel says you are more sinful and flawed than you ever dared believe, yet you are more accepted and loved than you ever dared hope because Jesus lived and died in your place.

there is nothing radical about common sense.

GENTLE READER: You, sir, are an anarchist, and Miss Manners is frightened to have anything to do with you. It is true that questioning the table manners of others is rude. But to overthrow the accepted conventions of society, on the flimsy grounds that you have found them silly, inefficient and discomforting, is a dangerous step toward destroying civilization.

Reeducation comes from voices that dissent from the unexamined comfort zone, from those who abrasively shock our comfort zones with voices from outside that violate the consensus that has been silently accepted.

But you are the ones chosen by God, chosen for the high calling of priestly work, chosen to be a holy people, God's instruments to do his work and speak out for him, to tell others of the night-and-day difference he made for you—from nothing to something, from rejected to accepted. 1 Peter 2:9–10, THE MESSAGE

You are chosen by the Creator of the universe—the One who knows you by name and never forgets you. He is the One who took us from "nothing to something, from rejected to accepted.

Repetition, volume, and longevity will twist and turn a myth, a lie, into a commonly accepted way of doing things.

Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.

I entirely concur in the propriety of restoring to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is a legitimate constitution. And, if that be not the guide in expounding it, there can be no security for consistent and stable government.

Love is of that excellent nature, that it is esteemed by the best of men, and accepted from the meanest persons; what then is the affection of a Father!

The atmosphere in Britain is so supportive. People are so friendly and positive. I feel accepted here.

Joe, don't go sensitive on me. It doesn't suit you." He consulted his feelings. She was right. And in any case, it was too much of an effort in this weather to keep it up. "Apology accepted," he said. "Apology? You going deaf too?

Sanitised violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of violence.

It seems that nonsense is the only sensible recourse to remedy the nonsense of society's accepted normalcy

Poetry exists partly to undermine the certainties of an accepted intellectual system, by opening a fissure of awareness at which the reality of the unconquered world may enter.

we have unknowingly accepted and merged our state of consciousness with the vibrational energies and consensus limits of their loved one's collective reality.

I do not accept the orthodox teaching that Jesus was or is God incarnate in the accepted sense or that he was or is the only Son of God.

A Government protected by foreigners will never be accepted by a free people.

If you look at the history of the American capital market, there's probably no innovation more important than the idea of generally accepted accountancy principles.

All our ancient history, as one of our wits remarked, is no more than accepted fiction.

You are more sinful than you could dare imagine and you are more loved and accepted than you could ever dare hope.

When I began in 1960, individuality wasn't an accepted thing to look for it was about species-specific behaviour. But animal behaviour is not hard science. There's room for intuition.

She was so unused to conversation in the accepted sense that most of her spoken words were almost meaningless. They were a gesture, like that of a hostess arranging loose covers on the furniture of her room in order to assure herself that everything was prepared for her guests.

Not all standards are equally persuasive, of course. Some will seem more directly on point, more widely accepted, or more immediately relevant in terms of time, place, or circumstance.