Top 1200 Accepting God Quotes & Sayings - Page 11

It's not just about me. It's about all of us, accepting one another. We're all different... That's a good thing.

If we would have God in the closet, God must have us out of the closet. There is no way of praying to God, but by living to God.

Journalists are supposed to be skeptical, that's what keeps them digging rather than simply accepting the official line, whether it comes from government or corporate bureaucrats.

Women have started speaking their minds, and men have graciously started accepting that. I love this.

Human beings cannot probe the mind of God by asking themselves what they would do if they were God. They are men and not God. And if they are virtuous men, they will wait for God to reveal himself under conditions of his own choosing.

Accepting that your imperfections and so-called negative attributes are part of what makes you unique will help you to stop continually trying to be someone or something that you are not.

Being a songwriter, you are accepting that this isn't about you. If you do want it to be about you, you're going to be really miserable.

I'm not going to beat this life. It's gonna get me in the end. So accepting that is a real freedom and finding a joy in working that I haven't allowed myself before.

Some people change. Most people don't. Accepting this makes it much harder for them to disappoint you.

Most important, do not ever think that you and God are separate. Think always, "God is with me; He is inside me; He is around me. All there is is God. I myself am God. I am the Infinite, the Eternal. I am not two; I am one, only one. There is no one else besides me. I and God are one and the same." To realize this Unity, the first step is to develop Self-confidence. It comes when you realize that God is not outside of you.

I want to entertain, but I also want to push the barriers beyond what kids are conditioned into accepting.

Kids across the country have grown up accepting the idea that no one can harm your family if at least one of its adult members is in the shower. No one knows why.

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

There can be no political reform and democracy in any Arab country without accepting that political Islam is a part of it.

I've always been incapable of accepting fate, and I've always refused to die, and that has helped me to survive.

In my more lucid moments I know that God is right here, right now; that God is the luminous mystery at the heart of creation and that God is here in the joys and sorrows of the world. And I try to see God in everything and treat all life with reverence.

Lots of songs aren't even from my experiences, but they're about accepting... the dark things about yourself.

Bold prayers honor God, and God honors bold prayers. God isn't offended by your biggest dreams or boldest prayers-he is offended by Anything Less. If your prayers aren't impossible to You, they are insulting to God- why? Because they don't require divine intervention. But ask God to part the Red Sea or make the sun stand still or float an iron axhead and God is moved to Omnipotent action

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

After accepting the captaincy at the beginning of the 1998 season, I immediately set high but attainable goals for the West Indies cricket team and myself.

Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.

We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.

India. From Goa to Kerala and Mumbai, it gets me every time. It's the food, the people, and the colours. The magical atmosphere and the accepting nature of the locals.

I don't see a benefit in accepting every single little morsel of work that comes along because I think, in essence, what you're doing is you're raping yourself really.

It's the hardest thing in the world to be in a business where it's all about people accepting you, and you have a desperate need to be accepted, and yet you live in a, you operate in a society that's now very unaccepting.

There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.

In essence, sin is all that is in opposition to God. Sin defies God; it violates His character, His law, and His covenant. It fails, as Martin Luther put it, to 'let God be God.' Sin aims to dethrone God and strives to place someone or something else upon His rightful throne.

Be careful, dear friends, that you do not misrepresent God yourselves. You who murmur; you who say that God deals hardly with you, you give God an ill character; when you look so melancholy, worldlings say, "The religion of Jesus is intolerable;" and so you stain the honor of God.

I surrender my anxiety and my sense of urgency. I allow God to guide me in the pacing of my life. I open my heart to God's timing. I release my deadlines, agendas, and stridency to the gentle yet often swift pacing of God. As I open my heart to God's unfoldings, my heart attains peace. As I relax into God's timing, my heart contains comfort. As I allow God to set the tone and schedule of my days, I find myself in the right time and place, open and available to God's opportunities.

Once the 'what' is decided, the 'how' always follows. We must not make the 'how' an excuse for not facing and accepting the 'what.'

In spite of the way many people are turning away from God, not for other gods, but for no god; in spite of the mess we are making of this beautiful Planet Earth which God has given us, God still loves the world.

Let us see that we keep God before our eyes; that we walk in His ways and seek to please and glorify Him in everything, great and small. Depend upon it, God's work, done in God's way, will never lack God's supplies.

We are always in danger of rejecting the creational in name of the fall and of accepting the fallen in name of creation.

Healing means accepting all parts of ourselves, not just the parts we like, but all of us.

Half of humanity has been accepting the inner world but denying the outer world.

Accepting your own mortality is like eating your vegetables: You may not want to do it, but it's good for you.

One of the most important gifts a parent can give a child is the gift of accepting that child's uniqueness.

It is natural to give a clear view of the world after accepting the idea that it must be clear.

These days she simply did the best job she could, accepting the good with the bad.

Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are.

There is only one decision you need to make: You are either working at your Freedom or you are accepting your bondage.

Love is acceptance - accepting people as they are. Just acceptance and caring.

Parents need to be more accepting of who their kids are and less concerned about what society thinks they need to be.

Accepting a government grant with its accompanying rules is like marrying a girl and finding out her entire family is moving in with you before the honeymoon.

I always hate it when I see the wrong person in massive roles, so for me, my biggest fear would be accepting a role I thought I wouldn't find the rhythm of.

When I lived in the U.K., I recorded a lot of ska and rock-steady styles of Jamaican music. But people there weren't accepting it. So I began using a faster reggae beat.

I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.

Have you heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market place, and cried incessantly, I seek God! I seek God! As many of those who do not believe in God were standing around just then, he provoked much laughter... Whither is God, he cried. I shall tell you. We have killed him - you and I. All of us are murderers.... God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.

People should decide what success means for them, and not be distracted by accepting others' definitions of success.

To imagine myself in different ways comes from my beginnings in the theatre. People are more accepting when you go 'apparently', 'wildly' afield from who you are or where you were brought up.

I'm far more ready to go with the flow now because I am more accepting of myself.

Innovation is all about people. Innovation thrives when the population is diverse, accepting and willing to cooperate.

I think there is something to be said for not coddling people and not accepting good as good enough.

Just accepting that vulnerability is part of the deal, I think, makes that part okay.

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.

Conservatives... are so opposed to government regulations that they are skeptical of anyone who identifies a problem that requires regulatory solutions - and they are inherently accepting of those who downplay such problems.

Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already posses.

If I had to embrace a definition of success, it would be that success is making the best choices we can ... and accepting them.

"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." This is such a reassuring thing. The world is in God's hands; it is his world. We sinners have messed things up and the amount of human division and cruelty is so terrible, but fortunately God is God.

Football in Brazil is seen as a masculine sport, even with a lot of people accepting the female sport.