Quotes about Acceptance
Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.
- St. Basil
In accepting or rejecting opinions, a man must not be influenced by love or hatred of him who offers the opinions, but only by the certainty of the truth.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Nothing to be done. I'm beginning to come round to that opinion.
- Samuel Beckett
What do you expect, one is what one is, partly at least.
- Samuel Beckett
Give Him leave to take His own way of dispensation with you; and though it be rough, forgive Him; He defieth you to have as much patience to Him, as He hath borne to you .
- Samuel Rutherford
If you were not strangers here, the dogs of the world would not bark at you.
- Samuel Rutherford
There are many heads lying in Christ's bosom, but there is room for yours among the rest.
- Samuel Rutherford
Happy are they who are found wanting.
- Samuel Rutherford
For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.
- Alice Walker
I don't spend a lot of time thinking about dying, but I like to think that I've - if it did occur - that I would die peacefully and not make too much of a fuss about it.
- Edmund Hillary
God accepts us unconditionally, and in his view we are all precious and priceless. Focus on this and you will not waste any time and effort trying to be someone you're not.
- Rick Warren
Instead of living in the sunshine of God's forgiveness through Christ, we tend to live under an overcast sky of guilt most of the time.
- Jerry Bridges