Quotes about Acceptance

The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.

If love is universal, no one can be left out.

A world without prejudice, stigma, and discrimination against those who have or are thought to have mental illness would be a better one for everyone. What so-called normal people are doing when they define disease like manic depression or schizophrenia is reassuring themselves that they don't have a thought disorder or an affective disorder, that their thoughts and feelings make perfect sense.

We also know that God is no respecter of persons. A plain factory hand who does his work faithfully pleases God just as much as a minister of the Word.

If I go back home to Wittenberg, I'll lie down in a coffin and give the maggots a fat doctor to eat.

faith alone makes all other works good, acceptable and worthy

God's approval isn't based on what a person does. Rather, he accepts what a person does because he already approves of the person. The person hasn't earned God's approval through the good that he or she does. Because

In addition, when these men were confronted, they did not stubbornly persist in their sins but repented. Paul commands that we should accept, instruct, and restore such people (Galatians 6:1). So those who sin and fall because of weakness will not be refused forgiveness if they stand up again and do not persist in their sin. Persisting in sin is disastrous.

the Lord has freed us from great evils to which we have been subjected, and that we have accepted many good things by faith.

and whatever good Germany has is not the result of her own power, virtue, or wisdom, but has been received from those rejected, despised, and accursed people who are called Christians

Sinners are attractive because they are loved; they are not loved because they are attractive.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.