Quotes about Acceptance
I used to worry about every little thing, trying to figure out every problem. Well, I realize now how foolish that was. I was no more in control of my life than the man on the moon.
— Joyce Meyer
The brightest saint is the man who has the most heart-searching sense of his own sinfulness, and the liveliest sense of his own complete acceptance in Christ.
— JC Ryle
Hard weather, says the old man. So let it be. Wrap me in the weathers of the earth, I will be hard and hard. My face will wash rain like the stones.
— Cormac McCarthy
I like a bit of mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog.
— George Bernard Shaw
A President is neither prince nor pope, and I don't seek a window on men's souls. In fact, I yearn for a greater tolerance, an easy-goingness about each other's attitudes and way of life.
— George H. W. Bush
It is true, that men may have Christ whenever they are willing to comply with His terms. But if you are not willing now, how can you think you shall be willing hereafter?
— Richard Baxter
Those who know their unworthiness seize grace as a hungry man seizes bread: the self-righteous resent grace.
— Randy Alcorn
The man who sticks it out against his fate shows spirit, but the spirit of a fool.
— Euripides
I understood that the man I was calling for could never ever come back. Because I understood that the man that I was calling for was dead.
— Anne Lamott
If my future were black, it was better surely to face it like a man than to attempt to brighten it by mere will-o'-the-wisps of the imagination.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
It's over, and can't be helped, and that's one consolation, as they always say in Turkey, when they cut the wrong man's head off.
— Charles Dickens
In exchange for our humility and willingness to accept the charity of God, we are given a kingdom. And a beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion.
— Donald Miller