Acceptance
When you forgive yourself, self-acceptance begins, and self-love grows.
Miguel Ruiz
Self-acceptance begins when you remember Whose you are.
But you are the ones chosen by God, chosen for the high calling of priestly work, chosen to be a holy people, God’s instruments to do his work and speak out for him, to tell others of the night-and-day difference he made for you—from nothing to something, from rejected to accepted. 1 Peter 2:9-10 The Message
Jesus never belittled, shamed, or degraded people. Especially those who were a mess.
When Jesus spent time with hurting people they felt seen, accepted, worthy, loved, forgiven and rescued. (unknown)
Self-acceptance requires an accurate – not judgmental – view of yourself.
I would ask each of you to be emptied of self-promotion and not create a false image of your importance. Instead, honestly assess your worth by using your God-given faith as the standard of measurement, and then you will see your true value with an appropriate self-esteem. Romans 12:3b The Passion Translation
Don’t ever judge yourself as failing.
For many times, finding out who you are not is the surest way to finding out who you truly are.
James Blanchard Cisneros
Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise, you will never see opportunity.
You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.
Maxwell Maltz
Self-acceptance includes Your feelings: they are part of you.
“We try so hard to hide everything we’re really feeling
from those who probably need to know our true feelings the most.
People try to bottle up their emotions, as if it’s somehow wrong to have natural reactions to life.”
Colleen Hoover
What self-acceptance does is open up more possibilities of succeeding
because you aren’t fighting yourself along the way.
Shannon Ables
Dear Lord, when feelings of inferiority, insecurity,
and self-doubt creep into my heart,
help me to see myself the way you do.
“Love yourself, accept yourself,
forgive yourself and be good to yourself,
because without you the rest of us are without
a source of many wonderful things.”
Leo F. Buscaglia