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Self-acceptance gives assent to be who...

Self-acceptance gives assent to be who I am—a small, limited person with bents toward sin as well as hungers for holiness—and allows me to live with all my contradictions, because my will, at least on good days is to “walk in the light, as he is in the light.

Quoted in Alice Fryling, Mirror of the Soul: A Christian Guide to the Enneagram.