"The Gospel is this: You're more sinful, evil and weak than you'd ever believe. But you're more valued, accepted and loved than you dared hope."
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"When nonviolence is accepted as the law of life, it must pervade the whole being and not be applied to isolated acts."
"I finally accepted Jesus. not as my personal savior, but as a man I intend to borrow money from."
"When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands to be believed."
"Nothing has to be accepted just because we inherited it."
"Christianity accepted as given a metaphysical system derived from several already existing and mutually incompatible systems."
"Once you have accepted yourself, it's so much easier to accept other people and their points of view."
"someone was telling me that no more applications were being accepted for the position of God."
"If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not."
"Of course it should be pointed out that, though all salvation is through Jesus, we need not conclude that he cannot save those who have not explicitly accepted him in this life."
"Even the most time-honoured truths do not have to be accepted until they are your truths."
"[Albert] Camus points out that we have a lot of things to pass through. Everything has to be accepted before it can be improved."
"Custom creates the whole of equity, for the simple reason that it is accepted."
"Almost all the other fellows do not look from the facts to the theory but from the theory to the facts; they cannot get out of the network of already accepted concepts; instead, comically, they only wriggle about inside."
"I'm a fatalist.... I consider I am rejected in principle. My work is and, through my work, I am. If it's accepted, it's miraculous or the result of a misunderstanding."
"He accepted what each moment brough him, and never troubled himself with matters that were outside his control."
"We didn't have another choice but to do what we did, if we wanted to be accepted, because we weren't counted as human beings."
"Religion says, 'I obey; therefore I am accepted.' Christianity says, 'I'm accepted, therefore I obey."
"Nothing is so false as human life, nothing so treacherous. God knows no one would have accepted it as a gift, if it had not been given without our knowledge."
"Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement."