Quotes on Accepting

All parenting turns on a crucial question: to what extent parents should accept their children for who they are, and to what extent they should help them become their best selves.

Even as a child, even as my blood-past was drained from me, I understood that if I were strong enough to accept it, I was being offered a second history.

Furthermore, in this one Church of Christ no man can be or remain who does not accept, recognize and obey the authority and supremacy of Peter and his legitimate successors.

I have not asked for life._x000D_ But I try to accept whatever_x000D_ life brings without surprise._x000D_ And I shall depart again without having_x000D_ questioned anyone about my strange_x000D_ stay here on earth.

No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.'

When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else.

Nothing is small if God accepts it.

To believe in Jesus is to accept what he says, even when it runs contrary to what others are saying. It means rejecting the lure of sin, however attractive it may be, in order to set out on the difficult path of the Gospel virtues.

If everyone there just lived their lives and let others do the same, God would be in every moment, in every grain of mustard, in the fragment of cloud that is there and then gone the following moment. God was there and yet people believed they still had to go on looking, because it seemed too simple to accept that life was an act of faith.

People make a lot of effort not to remember, not to accept their immense magical potential.

The Gift belongs to whoever chooses to accept it. It is enough to believe and not to be afraid to make a few mistakes.

Do not struggle against your thoughts; they are stronger than you are. If you want to be free of them, accept them.

Anyone who has known happiness will never again be able humbly to accept sadness.

A Warrior never accepts what is unacceptable.

A Warrior of the Light does not accept gifts from his enemy.

It's fear of the unknown. The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that-it's all illusion. Unknown is what it is. Accept that it's unknown and it's plain sailing. Everything is unknown-then you're ahead of the game. That's what it is. Right?

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

We should be similarly wary of accepting common opinions; we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote.

I know of no crime that has not been defended by the church, in one form or other. The church is not a pioneer; it accepts a new truth, last of all, and only when denial has become useless.

If God himself was not willing to use coercion to force man to accept certain religious views, man, uninspired and liable to error, ought not to use the means that Jehovah would not employ.

You have to accept the fact that part of the sizzle of sex comes from the danger of sex. You can be overpowered.