Quotes about Acceptance
Some of the qualities of # God must be merged into us before our # prayers can be fit for His acceptance.
- Oswald Chambers
Our lives laid down in war and peace may not Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight. And that they may be is the only prayer Worth praying. May my sacrifice Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight.
- Robert Frost
Our prayers must not be efforts to bend God to our will but to yield ourselves to His.
- Catherine Marshall
When the opposite of your prayer occurs, your prayer hasn't been ignored; it's been considered & refused for your ultimate good.
- CS Lewis
What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.
- Abraham Lincoln
What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.
- Abraham Lincoln
O Lord you know what is best for me. Let this or that be done as you please. Give what you will how much you will and when you will.
- Thomas a Kempis
Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
- Anne Lamott
I learnt to stop fantasising about the perfect job or the perfect relationship because that can actually be an excuse for not living.
- Alain de Botton
A good marriage is not one where perfection reigns: it is a relationship where a healthy perspective overlooks a multitude of "unresolvables."
- James Dobson
Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.
- Dorothy Day
My observation of Christendom is that most of us tend to base our relationship with God on our performance instead of on His grace.
- Tullian Tchividjian