Quotes about Acceptance
In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.
- Desmond Tutu
When we think too much about the opinions of others, we are letting them edit a book God has written.
- Donald Miller
We all wanted what we wanted, and when the Lord fulfilled HIS purpose rather than ours, we struck out against him. In anger. In disappointment. Yet, it is God's will that prevails.
- Francine Rivers
The most important thing I've come to believe in is that people with mental handicaps have a unique mission to bring God's blessing to the World.
- Henri Nouwen
Morality is good, and is accepted of God, as far as it goes; but the difficulty is, it does not go far enough.
- Henry Ward Beecher
It is a special part of the divine worship that we owe to God, to be content in a Christian way, as has been shown to you.
- Jeremiah Burroughs
Worship from the heart in times of adversity implies an attitude of humble acceptance on our part of God's right to do as He pleases in our lives.
- Jerry Bridges
God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily.
- Jimmy Carter
I think, for years, people have been pushed down by religion, and I don't say that disrespectfully, but they've been shown a God that you can't measure up to.
- Joel Osteen
You're never going to please everyone - you might as well be who God made you to be.
- Joel Osteen
Severn - I - lift me up - I am dying - I shall die easy; don't be frightened - be firm, and thank God it has come.
- John Keats
But for me at any rate it was all part of dissolving the God trip or father-figure trip. Facing up to reality instead of always looking for some kind of heaven.
- John Lennon