Quotes about Acceptance

This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you.

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.

The most difficult times for many of us are the ones we give ourselves.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

Do I prefer to grow up and relate to life directly, or do I choose to live and die in fear?

The people that Love You LOVE YOU---and the people that Don't Never Will.

A prayer room is a place where we can experience peace so that we can make peace later. A place where we can accept forgiveness so that we can live our lives as priests at work. A place where we receive our Father's acceptance so that we can love even those who laugh at us later in the day.

To love as God loves means loving not just others like us, but those who are not.

The Bible, just as it is, still works. Don't try to explain it. Just accept it. That won't make you a mindless zombie. It just means you are accepting your own human limitations and acknowledging by faith that something bigger than ourselves is happening, someone bigger is behind it, and we have the privilege to be a part of it.

diversity in no way implies chaos or error.

Wisdom teaches us to embrace both the adequacy and the limitations of our God-talk, to keep the two in tension. Perhaps accepting that paradox is true faith.