Accepting God Quotes

#1. By accepting God's love for us, we fall in love with Him, and only then do we have the fuel we need to obey.

Donald Miller

#2. Fundamentalists are less concerned to be systematic and rational than to be humble and faithful, accepting God's commandments because they come from God, not because they proceed from common sense or sophisticated reason.

Israel Shenker

#3. Don't allow false modesty,doubts or unbelief prevent you from accepting God's favor. The door of mercy stands wide open.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#4. Contentment is accepting God's sovereign control over all of life's circumstances.

Linda Dillow

#5. Accepting God's acceptance of me doesn't mean I'm going to stop trying. It means I'm going to stop trying out. And I am intentionally redirecting my obsession.

Steven Furtick

#6. Self-discipline will never make us feel righteous or clean; accepting God's love will.

Donald Miller

#7. I am not a conventionally religious man, but in the wilderness I have come closest to finding myself and knowing the universe and accepting God - by which I mean accepting all that I don't know.

Bob Brown

#8. I had a lot of trouble accepting God as a human being.

Suhaib Webb

#9. In many ways, accepting there is no God to provide meaning and purpose to our lives can, I believe, force us to create meaningful purposes ourselves.

Alom Shaha

#10. Trust is accepting what God sends into your life whether you understand it or not.

Timothy Keller

#11. You can't believe that AIDS is a curse from God against Gays without accepting that Lyme Disease is a curse from the same God against Deer Hunters ...

T. Rafael Cimino

#12. Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.

Charles Spurgeon

#13. We achieve everything by our efforts alone. Our fate is not decided by an almighty God. We decide our own fate by our actions. You have to gain mystery over yourself. It is not a matter of sitting back and accepting.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#14. God can turn your biggest flaws into your biggest cause.

Mandy Hale

#15. We shall draw nearer to God, not by trying to avoid the sufferings inherent in all loves, but by accepting them and offering them to Him; throwing away all defensive armour. If our hearts need to be broken, and if He chooses this as the way in which they should break, so be it.

C.S. Lewis

#16. You're no longer fighting God, trying to make Him do what you want. You're accepting what happens, and your main prayer transforms into one that asks God for nothing more than understanding and perhaps strength to endure.

Amy Welborn

#17. Must there always be "wars and rumors of war"? Accepting the inevitability of war is one thing, but glorifying war in the name of God and claiming that it reflects strong character and patriotism is quite another.

Ron Paul

#18. There is no salvation without accepting Joseph Smith. If Joseph Smith was verily a prophet, and if he told the truth ... no man can reject that testimony without incurring the most dreadful consequences, for he cannot enter the kingdom of God

Joseph Fielding Smith

#19. God sees us as we are, loves us as we are, and accepts us as we are. But by His grace, He does not leave us as we are.

Timothy Keller

#20. When we root ourselves so that we are experiencing love on all levels - feeling it in our body and heart, accepting love, surrounded by love, generating love - then we are giving as well as receiving at the same time that we are connected to God.

Laura Lane

#21. God alone can make a man a believer. Our part is to accept or reject his initiative.

John Powell

#22. The happy sequence culminating in fellowship with God is penitence, pardon, and peace - the first we offer, the second we accept, and the third we inherit.

Charles Brent

#23. Regardless of the source of our pain, we must accept that God knows, God loves, and God is at work.

Charles Stanley

#24. Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.

Lucretius

#25. A marriage is a way of accepting love and commitment of a man and woman in front of God, before moving to a new life.

Santonu Kumar Dhar

#26. In the Bible, man is only free to submit or be damned. His one freedom is the renunciation of that freedom. He finds his "salvation" by freely accepting his subjugation. The Christian ideal, says Saint Paul, is to be freely "subservient to God" (Romans 6:22).

Alain De Benoist

#27. Life in the Kingdom of God is accepting and knowing Jesus Christ, it is studying and applying
His teachings to your life.

Sunday Adelaja

#28. The nation's image has become more like a chameleon - accepting whatever trend marketers concoct. Gone are the days of reverencing a holy God in the church or within ourselves. Yet the Bible tells us, "Happy is the man who is always reverent" (Proverbs 28:14 NKJV).

Billy Graham

#29. Make sure that you let God's grace work in your souls by accepting whatever He gives you, and giving Him whatever He takes from you. True holiness consists in doing God's work with a smile.

Mother Teresa

#30. Everything in discernment of spirits is directed toward action: toward firmly accepting what is of God and equally firmly rejecting what is not.

Timothy M. Gallagher

#31. Still, as I have said, accepting that God loved me was something I did only on the level of theory.

Rod Dreher

#32. Worry is accepting responsibility God never intended you to have.

Alice Hocker

#33. Holiness does not consist in doing extraordinary things. It consists in accepting, with a smile, what Jesus sends us. It consists in accepting and following the will of God.

Mother Teresa

#34. We can accept God becoming Man to save Man, but not Man becoming God to save himself.

Vernon Howard

#35. I could not accept that organizational interpretations, based on shifting human reasoning, could ever be made equal in authority to the actual statements found in God's unchangeable Word.

Raymond Franz

#36. To live a disciplined life, and to accept the result of that discipline as the will of God - that is the mark of a man.

Tom Landry

#37. With the early Christians you couldn't have God as your father unless you have the church as your mother. This isn't accepting the church as a perfect thing.

Shane Claiborne

#38. Perfect joy lies in selflessly striving for the best outcome, and then humbly accepting whatever God gives.

Daya Mata

#39. When we learn to loosen our grip and leave our own beaten path, accepting his perfect plan, we give God the opportunity to be our navigator as he reveals the beauty of his creation.

Eve M. Harrell

#40. To accept Naturalism is to reject such entities as Cartesian minds, private visual and tactual spaces, angelic beings and God.

David Malet Armstrong

#41. When God accepts a sinner, He is, in fact, only accepting Christ. He looks into the sinner's eyes, and He sees His own dear Son's image there, and He takes him in.

Charles Spurgeon

#42. 4By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks. 5By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not

Anonymous

#43. We also need to recognize that God may have other plans in store for us, and we must be willing to accept that.

Greg Laurie

#44. Islam cannot accept or agree to a situation which is half-Islam and half-Jahiliyya [separated from God].

Sayyid Qutb

#45. This here's war, and sometimes there's casualties. You hope to God not to be one, but you go in accepting the risk. Especially if something's worth fighting for.

Denise Grover Swank

#46. Faith is not accepting the world as it is but insisting on building the world God wants.

Shane Claiborne

#47. The reason to be an atheist is not that it makes us feel better or gives us a more rewarding life. The reason to be an atheist is simply that there is no God and we would prefer to live in full recognition of that, accepting the consequences, even if it makes us less happy.

Julian Baggini

#48. The creator made us creative. Our creativity is our gift from God. Our use of it is our gift to God. Accepting this bargain is the beginning of true self-acceptance.

Julia Cameron

#49. Refusing to accept God's love because we're unworthy - of course we're unworthy! - is another golden calf.

Madeleine L'Engle

#50. When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.

Teresa Of Avila

#51. Let us be very sincere in our dealings with each other, and have the courage to accept each other as we are. Do not be surprised or become preoccupied at each other's failures - rather, see and find in each other the good, for each one of us is created in the image of God.

Mother Teresa

#52. We must search the scriptures, accepting them as the mind and will and voice of the Lord and the very power of God unto salvation.

Bruce R. McConkie

#53. How Religion Works: If I obey, then God will love and accept me. The Gospel: I'm loved and accepted, therefore I wish to obey.

Timothy Keller

#54. Humility is simply believing and accepting what God says about us, and God says that we are anything but worthless.

Myles Munroe

#55. Nothing is small if God accepts it.

Teresa Of Avila

#56. Grace is God's acceptance of us. Faith is our acceptance of God accepting us.

Adrian Rogers

#57. Accepting the reality of our broken, flawed lives is the beginning of spirituality not because the spiritual life will remove our flaws but because we let go of seeking perfection and, instead, seek God, the one who is present in the tangledness of our lives.

Mike Yaconelli

#58. Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.

Narendra Modi

#59. We're not trying to prove the character of God through science. That's a bad idea. What I'm trying to do is clear away the misunderstandings, the debris that prevent people from accepting that God who wants to accept them.

Phillip E. Johnson

#60. Pritkin kissed like he did everything else, straightforward, accepting no prisoners and with an intensity that left me breathless. It was hot and hard and desperate, like he was starving for it, and I opened my mouth and took it, because, God.

Karen Chance

#61. Nature does not abandon us. Rather, it helps us in accepting our loss, grief and pain. It stays with us, even cries with us. It gifts us openings, may be more than once, to heal, transcend and re-emerge. (Page xii)

Neena Verma

#62. Dear God, I surrender this relationship to you," means, "Dear God, let me see this person through your eyes." In accepting the Atonement, we are asking to see as God sees, think as God thinks, love as God loves. We are asking for help in seeing someone's innocence.

Marianne Williamson

#63. Being a Christian means accepting Christ as your savior, your God. That's why you are called a 'Christian.' If you remove Christ, there's only 'ian' and that means 'I am nothing.'

Manny Pacquiao

#64. The battle for the lead between faith and reason can be settled by accepting the guiding hand of an experienced navigator.

Elaine Orabona Foster

#65. The minister was an honest man so far as he knew himself and honesty, and did not relish this form of submission. But he did not ask himself where was the difference between accepting the word of man and accepting man's explanation of the word of God!

George MacDonald

#66. Well, by accepting that sex is a physical manifestation of God, and that is not a sin-it is a blessing.

Paulo Coelho

#67. And I find a happiness in the fact of accepting -
In the sublimely scientific and difficult fact of accepting the inevitable natural.

Alberto Caeiro

#68. If God wanted us to accept gays, he'd have made us compassionate

Stephen Colbert

#69. Salvation is from our side a choice, from the divine side it is a seizing upon, an apprehending, a conquest by the Most High God. Our 'accepting' and 'willing' are reactions rather than actions. The right of determination must always remain with God.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#70. To fulfill your mission will require that you abandon your agenda and accept God's agenda for your life.

Rick Warren

#71. Everything is "acceptable" in the sight of God, for how can God not accept that which is? To reject a thing is to deny that it exists.

Neale Donald Walsch

#72. Love you ... God, finally accepting it was as bad as dying.

Joey W. Hill

#73. If God has saved you, He has saved you by faith--plus nothing. God is not accepting any kind of good works for salvation. But after you are saved, God talks to you about your works.

J. Vernon McGee

#74. Everything is the will of God - we are only instruments of her will and we learn to just love and accept.

Frederick Lenz

#75. Faith is the accepting of what God gives. Faith is the believing what God says. Faith is the trusting to what Jesus has done. Only do this and you are saved, as surely as you are alive!

Charles Spurgeon

#76. An argument frequently used by believers [is] to force unbelievers to soften their terms by accepting their opponents' definition; "Atheist" means without a concept of God that is logically convincing, not with proof that God does not exist.

Jim Herrick

#77. The inclination to self-depreciation, to freely accepting being robbed, being duped, and being swindled, could be the modesty of a god among men.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#78. I realize that I will either allow my view of evil to determine my view of God and will cut him down accordingly, or I will allow my view of God to determine my view of the evil and will elevate him accordingly, accepting that nothing is beyond his power for good.

Dallas Willard

#79. You don't have to be bound by the barriers of the past. God wants you to go further than your parents. I'm sure your parents were fine, hardworking people, but don't fall into that trap of just sitting back and accepting the status

Joel Osteen

#80. God (in His mercy) accepts false coin.

Rumi

#81. What is the work of God? Accepting people. Loving before judging. Caring before condemning. Look before you label. (From

Anonymous

#82. It is only by loving others that we can learn to live; living is rare nowadays ... most people survive; that is all.

Sandra Chami Kassis

#83. Jesus' whole life and mission involve accepting powerlessness and revealing in this powerlessness the limitlessness of God's love.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#84. Then, accepting the help of God and of God's signs, he allows his personal legend to guide him toward the tasks that life has reserved for him.

Paulo Coelho

#85. Remaining stable and not accepting all the ideas, is my religion.

Ali Shariati

#86. Prayer is thinking and thanking. It is thinking of our many blessings and accepting them with a thankful spirit.

Wilferd Peterson

#87. And it is to rock the soul and lead the person to immorality, corruption - to forget their prayers, to forget their God. And thus the world has partaken of the spirit of the Negro race, accepting their ways.

Warren Jeffs