Quotes about Acceptance
Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, freely submitting to, and taking delight in God's wise, and fatherly disposal in every condition.
- Jeremiah Burroughs
Know that this is the excellence of grace in a Christian, to be fitted for any condition; not only to say, if it were this or that, but if it were any.
- Jeremiah Burroughs
It is contrary to the worship that is in contentedness.
- Jeremiah Burroughs
Here lies the bottom and root of all contentment, when there is an evenness and proportion between our hearts and our circumstances.
- Jeremiah Burroughs
he who claims to believe in Christ must rejoice in all Christ's judgments.
- Jerome
Anxiety is a sin also because it is a lack of acceptance of God's providence in our lives.
- Jerry Bridges
They find it difficult to accept that both calamities and good things come from God.
- Jerry Bridges
Often unwilling to accept the fact that God is working because they don't understand how He is working, they have chosen to substitute the doctrine of chance for the doctrine of divine providence.
- Jerry Bridges
God owes me no explanation. He has the right to do what He wants, when He wants, and how He wants. Why? Because He's God. . .
- Jerry Bridges
So we should never ask why in the sense of demanding that God explain or justify His actions or what He permits in our lives.
- Jerry Bridges
For us that is not a particularly striking event, but for a Muslim country to allow a Christian school to remain open when others were closed was indeed unusual.
- Jerry Bridges
I'm accepted by God, not on the basis of my personal performance, but on the basis of the infinitely perfect righteousness of Jesus Christ.
- Jerry Bridges