acceptance Quotes

The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legitimate part of the academic community did not come easily. Slavery ended and left its false images of black people intact.

That was the - It was an exciting time because it was as though I was sort of tied up in a paper bag or in a gunny sack with a rope around the neck of it, and all of a sudden with the acceptance of that first book everything sort of spilled out!

What really grabs me is when a reader writes to express her personal story and how a book helped her situation, or her acceptance of a situation she can't change. I read some sad cases in my snail and electronic mail. I respond to all I can, affirming that they are the true heroes of life because they are fighting through adversity and surviving.

There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance.

The purpose of the Buddy Walk is to raise awareness and acceptance for individuals with Down syndrome and to main stream society,

It's still early in the quarter, ... Obviously acceptance of Acrobat will play a big part in terms of how high the company's growth will be. But as we've demonstrated over the last eight to 10 quarters, we're a company that knows how to manage our business. ... We'll see what happens.

He literally carried the league. He gave us recognition and acceptance when we were at the bottom of the totem pole in professional sports.

The objective is to accelerate the 802.11n specification process and to promote interoperability, which is critical for acceptance by consumers.

Of course there is no formila for success except perhaps and unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

One of the attractions of the pig is the widespread acceptance that it is regarded as ethically proper to rear and then kill large numbers of pigs for food,

One of the attractions of the pig is the widespread acceptance that it is regarded as ethically proper to rear and then kill large numbers of pigs for food.

I auditioned for ballet, but they called me up after the audition and asked if I'd take an acceptance in modern because they liked to watch me move, and my technique was terrible.

We're here to bring awareness that each person deserves tolerance and acceptance.

Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.

A society like Canada's, with its four centuries of give-and-take, compromise and acceptance, wrong-doing and redress, is basically a forgiving society.

We conveyed to President Clinton our acceptance in principle to the proposal ... with our own explanations and interpretations of those proposals in relation to all the issues,

When you're a beautiful person on the inside, there is nothing in the world that can change that about you. Jealousy is the result of one's lack of self-confidence, self-worth, and self-acceptance. The Lesson: If you can't accept yourself, then certainly no one else will.

This is a momentous case. The UK is at an important crossroads. It can reaffirm its stand against torture, which is absolutely banned, or slide towards illegality by its tacit acceptance that torture is sometimes OK.

Parenthood is one long exercise in relinquishing control -- or the illusion that we ever had it. Postparenthood is about acceptance.

You accept certain unlovely things about yourself and manage to live with them. The atonement for such an acceptance is that you make allowances for others - that you cleanse yourself of the sin of self-righteousness.

Jeremiah refutes the popular, modern notion that the end of religion is an integrated personality, freed of its fears, its doubts, and its frustrations. Certainly Jeremiah was no integrated personality. It is doubtful if... he ever knew the meaning of the word \'peace\'. We have no evidence that his internal struggle was ever ended, although the passing years no doubt brought an increasing acceptance of destiny. Jeremiah, if his \'confessions\' are any index, needed a course in pastoral psychiatry in the very worst way...

As God alone is a fit witness of himself in his Word, so also the Word will not find any acceptance in men's hearts before it is sealed by the inward testimony of the Spirit. The same Spirit, therefore, who has spoken by the mouth of the prophets must penetrate into our hearts, to persuade us that they faithfully proclaimed what has been divinely commanded.

Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970 Two movements merge in the real act of communion. First, the creature's profound sense of need, of incompleteness: its steadfast desire... Next, a humble and loving acceptance of God's answer to that prayer of desire, however startling, disappointing, and unappetizing it may be.

Feast of the Visit of the Virgin Mary to Elizabeth The solution lies in a complete realisation of what we mean by asserting that God is Almighty. The two ideas of Free-will and Divine Sovereignty can not be reconciled in our own minds, but that does not prevent them from being reconciled in God's mind. We measure Him by our own intellectual standard if we think otherwise. And so our solution of the problem of Free-will and of the problems of history and of individual salvation must finally lie in the full acceptance

Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675 Most Christians would agree with C. S. Lewis when he says [of the doctrine of the Final Judgment], \'There is no doctrine which I would more willingly remove from Christianity than this, if it lay in my power\'. But we cannot do so, for two reasons: first, because it enjoys the full support of Christ's own teaching; and second, because it makes a good deal of sense. If the gospel is extended to us for our acceptance, it must be possible also to reject and refuse it.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.

If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is \'the<br />quiet acceptance of what is.\'.

Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it.

We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare<br />moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher<br />and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a<br />force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident<br />and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to<br />be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.