Top 100 God Acceptance Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Give me, if you will, prayers;
Or let me know dryness,
An abudance of devotion,
Or if not, then barrenness.
In you alone, Sovereign Majesty,
I find my peace,
What do you want of me?
Yours I am, fo ryou I was born:
What do you want of me?
Teresa Of Avila
#3. We have to be careful not to look for confidence in the acceptance of others because true confidence only comes from knowing God.
Victoria Osteen
#4. Relying on the atonement which Christ has made, and desiring to be saved in no other way, I commit myself into Thy hands, O God, my Father! Take me, and do with me as Thou seest to be for Thy glory. I consecrate myself forever to Thy service, and trust for acceptance in the merits of Thy Son.
Samuel I. Prime
#5. It is acceptance of the will of God - waiting, if necessary, forever, happily rising above your desires and above your frustrations to always do what is right. Always do what is right. This is the spiritual study.
Frederick Lenz
#6. Accept me for who iam or leave me the the way iam, for a true image of God needs no Photoshop and the core of who i real am has no settings
Morgan Chabane
#7. The day that each person willingly accepts himself or herself for who he or she is and acknowledges the uniqueness of God's framing process marks the beginning of a journey to seeing the handiwork of God in each life.
Ravi Zacharias
#8. So many of us have believed that we need to labor and perform for God so that we can gain an identity, so that we might be accepted. But in the Kingdom, we start off accepted.
Beni Johnson
#9. To be accepted by others is a small achievement.
To accept yourself is a great achievement.
To be accepted by God is the greatest achievement.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#10. God, help me let go of my need to be afraid. I welcome peace, trust, acceptance, and safety into my life. I will make a point of listening to my healthy, rational fears, and will relinquish all the others.
Melody Beattie
#11. Such words as 'God' and 'Death' and 'Suffering' and 'Eternity' are best forgotten. We have to become as simple and as wordless as the growing corn or the falling rain. We must just be.
Etty Hillesum
#12. The source of all glory is acceptance of whatsoever the Lord hath bestowed, and contentment with that which God hath ordained.
Baha'u'llah
#13. Once us feel loved by God, us do the best us can to please him with what us like.
Alice Walker
#14. We are women, and my plea is Let me be a woman, holy through and through, asking for nothing but what God wants to give me, receiving with both hands and with all my heart whatever that is.
Elisabeth Elliot
#15. Acceptance of Christ and appropriation of every element in redemption is conditional on awareness of God's holiness and conviction of the depth of our sin.
Richard F. Lovelace
#16. Sometimes, we are unable to break free because we are held captive by divine assignment because in our problem God has given us a unique purpose.
Shannon L. Alder
#17. Think not thy love to God merits God's love to thee; His acceptance of thy duty crowns His own gifts in thee; man's love to God is nothing but a faint reflection of God's love to man.
Francis Quarles
#18. We explain justification simply as the acceptance with which God receives us into his favor as righteous men. And we say that it consists in the remission of sins and the imputation of Christ's righteousness.
John Calvin
#19. I came home from Portugal convinced that nothing is so important as making known what the Mother of God asked in those apparitions of 1917 ... The future of our civilization, our liberties, our very existence may depend upon the acceptance of her commands.
William Thomas Walsh
#20. I don't know anything about god except that it's not me. So, somewhere between that acceptance and doing my homework and being competitive and having ambition and loving my job and observing and reflecting my society, that's where I find the purpose. Because man needs purpose.
Tom Hardy
#21. The acceptance of all that God has given us and the willingness to let it go - to give it back to him at a moment's notice - that's true human freedom.
Thomas Keating
#22. Next to God we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth living.
Mary McLeod Bethune
#23. Why do you think anyone would go to such lengths to prove that a direct command of God is no longer applicable, unless it is to gain some other benefit other than the acceptance and approbation of God?
Michael Bunker
#24. To reciprocate God's love is a sign of being a recipient
Sunday Adelaja
#25. Grant not my prayers, when they are contrary to Thy will, which at all times must be the best. Oh, hear them not;
Hans Christian Andersen
#26. Meekness implies a spirit of gratitude as opposed to an attitude of self-sufficiency, an acknowledgement of a greater power beyond oneself, a recognition of God, and an acceptance of his commandments.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#28. Whatever controls us really is our god ... The person who seeks power is controlled by power. The person who seeks acceptance is controlled by the people he or she wants to please. We do not control ourselves. We are controlled by the lord of our life. (Rebecca Manley Pippert,
Timothy Keller
#29. Acceptance. It sounds so gentle; you foolishly imagine you might try it. As if you could choose. You don't choose. You plummet into acceptance, because the floor has collapsed beneath your feet.
Dawn Downey
#30. Anxiety is a sin also because it is a lack of acceptance of God's providence in our lives.
Jerry Bridges
#31. God's presence in our lives fills us with His acceptance and love.
Lysa TerKeurst
#32. There is no end to the things you don't understand. The mind will search for a lie to give it an answer you can understand, but one song at the right time will challenge what you accept.
Shannon L. Alder
#33. 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 and which is not distinct from the essence of God, and therefore a tree imitates God by being a tree
Thomas Merton
#34. Accept the universe
As the gods gave it to you.
If the gods wanted to give you something else
They'd have done it.
If there are other matters and other worlds
There are.
Alberto Caeiro
#35. If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.
Thomas A Kempis
#36. No religion can fully accept another religion, that's the one belief all religions share
Ben Mitchell
#37. Openness to God demands our growing acceptance that we cannot create blueprints for our own lives. Though God's character is unchanging, the ways of God are unpredictable, and there is a difference between arbitrariness and unpredictability.
Enuma Okoro
#38. Family can deny you, friends can deny you, colleagues can deny you, even society can deny you but God will never deny you. His acceptance is all you need to make your life complete.
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#39. I was born subject like others to errors and defects,
But never to the error of wanting to understand too much,
Never to the error of wanting to understand only with the intellect..
Never to the defect of demanding of the World
That it be anything that's not the World.
Alberto Caeiro
#40. 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
#41. The evidence of our acceptance in the Beloved rises in proportion to our love, to our repentance, to our humility, to our faith, to our self-denial, to our delight in duty. Other evidence than this the Bible knows not God has not given.
Gardiner Spring
#42. Our desire for approval can only truly be met by receiving God's acceptance and approval of us.
Joyce Meyer
#43. Every time you do something that comes from your needs for acceptance, affirmation, or affection, and every time you do something that makes these needs grow, you know that you are not with God. These needs will never be satisfied; they will only increase when you yield to them.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#44. God's rescue of us, followed by His acceptance of us, enables us to walk in one fluid motion of humility and confidence.
Matt Chandler
#45. A living faith in God means acceptance of the brotherhood of mankind.
Mahatma Gandhi
#46. I learned to accept that everything happened in her time. When you live in the moment, it's easier to wait. When you trust and have faith, you just know that whatever it is will come when it will come. Your master will always bring everything to you at the perfect time.
Kate McGahan
#47. God said to accept whatever circumstances that come along. Circumstance is a natural thing. In it, 'Do this and don't do that'- should not be there. Circumstances are a 'scientific circumstantial evidence' ['Vyavasthit']. You should 'settle them with equanimity'.
Dada Bhagwan
#48. Peace cannot come by legislation or through affiliation with any political philosophy ... Peace, joy, and happiness can come only through an acceptance of God's revealed plan of life.
Theodore M. Burton
#49. No, he didn't want to tame her any more than he wanted to tame the
land. But by God, it was time for acceptance, on both sides.
Nora Roberts
#50. People of the West have various forms of democracy based on a belief in God as well as on a general acceptance of moral law. However, in practice we are beginning to resemble the Marxists, who have little respect for moral law or religion.
Billy Graham
#51. 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
#52. He didn't know which he preferred: the Red, with its fatalistic and pious acceptance of all futures, or the Misery, acknowledging that the more you attracted notice, the worse God dealt with you.
Kay Kenyon
#53. How powerful is man! He is able to do all that God wishes him to do. He is able to accept all that God sends upon him.
Marcus Aurelius
#54. 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
#55. We have but one Saviour; and that one Saviour is Jesus Christ our Lord. Nothing that we are and nothing that we can do enters in the slightest measure into the ground of our acceptance with God. Jesus did it all.
B. B. Warfield
#56. Denial is fear gone delusional. Acceptance is fear given to God. Engaging is fear overruled by God. Victory is fear banished by God.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#57. Accept yourself in the way you were created by God, do not anyone else
Sunday Adelaja
#59. I rather have you win, because in God even those who are in second place are first.
Auliq Ice
#60. 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.
Mary E. DeMuth
#61. No one can be saved, and attain eternal joy, without all of the following: (1) a morally honest acceptance of the demands of virtue, (2) a serious effort to practice it, (3) an intellectually honest confession of failure, (4) repentance, and (5) at least an implicit faith and hope in God as Savior.
Peter Kreeft
#62. I swear to God, Gabriel, if you don't stop, I will lose it. I will go to the bathroom and pull a Britney in the middle of your acceptance speech.
Claire Contreras
#63. It seems as though we Christians have developed a nasty habit of leading people into a radical encounter with God's unconditional love, forgiveness, acceptance, and union only to spend the ensuing years teaching them how to become close to God to earn his approval.
Ted Dekker
#64. My identity and my security are not in my spiritual progress. My identity and my security are in God's acceptance of me given as a gift in Christ.
J.D. Greear
#65. Like and dislike, good or bad, God and devil, this and that,
Creates dualities and confuses mind to discriminate and make choices.
In Oneness, they all merge into surrender and acceptance.
Gian Kumar
#66. Legalism is seeking to achieve forgiveness from GOD and acceptance by GOD through my obedience to GOD
C.J. Mahaney
#67. Genuine self-acceptance is not derived from the power of positive thinking, mind games or pop psychology. IT IS AN ACT OF FAITH in the God of grace.
Brennan Manning
#68. God's definition of going well is unique, distinct, almost eccentric. His definition of wellness is not about health, finances, or job security. It's not about unfailing protection from the vagaries and dangers of a broken world. It's not about life being fair. It's about acceptance.
Mark Buchanan
#69. We fail to see the gospel as the solution to our greatest problem-our guilt, condemnation, and alienation from God. Beyond that, we fail to see it as the basis of our day-to-day acceptance with Him. As a result, many believers live in spiritual poverty.
Jerry Bridges
#70. When you find complete acceptance in the Father, you will no longer stress about what others believe, think or say about you.
Alisa Hope Wagner
#71. At the core of who we are, we crave the acceptance that comes from being loved. To satisfy this longing we will either be graspers of God's love or grabbers for people's love.
Lysa TerKeurst
#72. And now she began muttering to herself. "God , who created you, must have known what He did. Enough is enough.
Chinelo Okparanta
#73. Accept me for who iam or leave me the way iam, for a true image of God needs no Photoshop and the core of who i really am has no settings
Morgan Chabane
#74. It's no wonder we are so messed up when it comes to walking with God. In nearly every aspect of our existence, good performance equals good reward. Except not with him. A good thing turns bad when we perform to earn God's acceptance rather than simply receive it like a gift.
Emily P. Freeman
#75. To praise God is to express our acceptance of something that God is permitting to happen. So to praise God for difficult situations, as sickness or disaster, means literally that we accept its happening, as part of God's plan to reveal His perfect love for us. We
Merlin R. Carothers
#76. She was perhaps too young to realize that what she assumed was her love for [him] was actually a tentative, timorous, acceptance of herself.
Arundhati Roy
#78. It's a reminder that it's not my offerings that delight God, but my joyful acceptance of His love that brings Him pleasure (see Hos. 6:6).
Suzanne Eller
#79. The world I live in is composing a magnum opus to the heart-stopping, outrageously unbelievable unconditional love and acceptance of God that crushes and demolishes the vestiges of self-righteous "us and them." It's
Wendy Vanderwal-Gritter
#80. God's acceptance of us cannot be gained by our successes nor forfeited by our failures.
Tullian Tchividjian
#81. We don't serve God to gain His acceptance; we are accepted so we serve God. We don't follow Him in order to be loved; we are loved so we follow Him.
Neil T. Anderson
#82. No one can say yes to God's ways who has said no to his promises and commandments. Acceptance of the will of God comes in the daily submission under his Word.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#83. It is in our acceptance of what is given that God gives Himself.
Elisabeth Elliot
#84. Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict.
Kenneth L. Pike
#85. Some of the qualities of # God must
be merged into us before our
# prayers can be fit for His
acceptance.
Oswald Chambers
#86. Today, God, help me practice the concept of acceptance in my life. Help me accept myself, others, and my circumstances. Take me one step further, and help me feel grateful.
Melody Beattie
#87. People don't get me
it's more rule than exception
God bless exceptions
Beth Myrle Rice
#88. Acceptance is taking from God's hand absolutely anything He gives, looking into His face in trust and thanksgiving.
Charles R. Swindoll
#89. And I find a happiness in the fact of accepting -
In the sublimely scientific and difficult fact of accepting the inevitable natural.
Alberto Caeiro
#90. The antidote to busyness of soul is not sloth and indifference. The antidote is rest, rhythm, death to pride, acceptance of our own finitude, and trust in the providence of God.
Kevin DeYoung
#91. Nothing happens without God's will, and life doesn't always go according to plan. Man proposes, God disposes. And it is God's will that we need to surrender to. In retrospect it usually all makes sense.
Kristiane Backer
#92. Jesus' command to love our neighbours is a command to love all strangers precisely because we too have been strangers to God and welcomed in.
Kester Brewin
#93. With this sweet hope of ultimate acceptance with God, I have always enjoyed much cheerfulness before men; but I have at the same time laboured incessantly to cultivate the deepest humiliation before God.
Charles Simeon
#94. Not being changed by prayer is sort of life standing in the middle of a spring rain without getting wet. It's hard to stand in the center of God's acceptance and love without getting it all over you.
Steve Brown
#95. Ambition is the weakness of all the great spirits who in acceptance will find the joy & the despair the seek. The physician can only cure when he is willing to assume your disease. To be shunned is to be God a little...
Kenneth Patchen
#96. When the theory of evolution destroyed the picture of God as the supreme Creator, confidence in God as the all-powerful Father of man fell with it, although many were able to combine a belief in God with the acceptance of the Darwinian theory.
Erich Fromm
#97. To live by grace is to live solely by the merit of Jesus Christ. To live by grace is to base my entire relationship with God, including my acceptance and standing with Him, on my union with Christ.
Jerry Bridges
#98. But at some point you have to make peace with what you were given and if God wanted me to be a shy girl with think, dark hair, He would have made me that way, but He didn't. Useful, then, might be to accept how I was made and embody myself fully therein.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#99. Her constant phrase, "Go with God", had puzzled me a good deal. Suddenly it became clear. It was a revelation - acceptance. It filled me with joy. Accept life, the world, Spirit, God, call it what you will, and all else will follow.
Jennifer Worth
#100. When God forgives, there is an immediate and
complete change in relationship. Instead of hostility, there is love and acceptance. Instead of enmity, there is friendship.
Billy Graham
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