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Death is not an eventuality that with luck, waits for another day. It is today’s cup from which God now insists you drink. If you think that somehow you can choose today not to carry the deaths of you... -
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How To Apologize • express sorrow (I’m sorry) • own guilt (I was wrong) • name specific wrongs (I did X) • name impact (I hurt u) • no IFs (sorry if I) • don’t blameshift/defend (but u) ... -
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We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. -
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The art of gentleness toward ourselves leads to being gentle with others -- and is a natural prerequisite for our presence to God in prayer.” -
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I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel; For words, like nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within. -
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When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run. -
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Once you can accept the universe as being something expanding into an infinite nothing which is something, wearing stripes with plaid is easy. -
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When we accept ourselves for what we are, we decrease our hunger for power or the acceptance of others because our self-intimacy reinforces our inner sense of security. We are no longer preoccupied wi... -
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Several times in my ministry people have expressed the fear that self-acceptance will abort the ongoing conversion process and lead to a life of spiritual laziness and moral laxity. Nothing could be m... -
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Grace frees us from having to earn God’s acceptance by meeting others’ expectations, and it also frees us from the unholy pride and prejudice of determining others’ acceptance by God on the basis of o... -
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The Word of God is clear, it is not that we have accepted God; rather He has accepted us… [Yet many Christians] actually think that they accepted God, and therefore it is only natural for them to thin... -
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You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company. -
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He drew a circle that shut me out— Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle that took him in! -
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What's been important in my understanding of myself and others is the fact that each one of us is so much more than any one thing. A sick child is much more than his or her sickness. A person with... -
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It would have been sad for me to spend my life just trying to superimpose stuff on people rather than trying to encourage them to look within themselves for what's of value. -
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I don’t think that anybody can grow unless he really is accepted exactly as he is. -
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself. -
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Most people don’t lead their life, they accept their life. -
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I can face things that are out of my control and not act out of control. -
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American Christianity tends toward a kind of "easy-believism." The Gospel is often presented in a way that suggests that someone is saved as soon as he or she has "accepted" Jesus ... -
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A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. -
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It’s an act of our will to choose to see people simply as wildly loved by God, to assume their beauty before guessing their depravity.” -
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The need for affirmation is spiritual, and the behavior it inspires is religious. The longing for acceptance is at the core of human experience and it shadows all of human history. -
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Romans 6 shines a bright spotlight on the dangerous half-truth, currently fashionable, that ‘God accepts us as we are.’ Will ‘God’s acceptance’ do as a complete grounding of Christian ethics? Emphatic... -
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Don't accept the applause of men, and you won't be destroyed by their criticism. -
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God, give me grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, Courage to change the things which should be changed, and the Wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. Living one day... -
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We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature. -
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If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance. -
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Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men; whatever they say about you, good or bad, you are not because of it another man, for as you are, you are. -
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A tree gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying [God]. It “consents,” so to speak, to [God's] creative love. It is expressing an idea which is in God ...
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