Quotes about Acceptance

behave or feel. If you like what you see in the mirror, you feel a bit more worthy of My Love. When things are going smoothly and your performance seems adequate, you find it easier to believe you are My

You yearn for a simplified lifestyle, so that your communication with Me can be uninterrupted. But I challenge you to relinquish the fantasy of an uncluttered world. Accept each day just as it comes, and find Me in the midst of it all.

Your sense of security must not rest in your possessions or in things going your way. I am training you to depend on Me alone, finding fulfillment in My Presence. This entails being satisfied with much or with little, accepting either as My will for the moment. Instead of grasping and controlling, you are learning to release and receive. Cultivate this receptive stance by trusting Me in every situation.

Not only that, Jesus finds all the "wrong" people on God's side and all the "right" people against God.

The church God wants is one brimming with difference,

When I first met him, he did not care if a friend did not fit into his world, because at that time his world had not been born yet.

In Jesus Christ we have been chosen from eternity, accepted in time, and united for eternity.

'Well,' said Red Jacket [to someone complaining that he had not enough time], 'I suppose you have all there is.'

I could give all to Time except--except What I myself have held.

Reason will by degrees submit to absurdity, as the eye is in time accommodated to darkness.

I believe that time, with its infinite understanding, will one day forgive me.

Each of us at any time and space is doing the very best we can with what we have.