Pastoral Resources

The principal barrier to a general acceptance of the monist position is that it is counterintuitive.

Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of sorts, but to be honest, my marriage played a more important role in the acceptance of myself than performance has ever done.

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.

Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.

I've had a very good career and I'm grateful that the public has had some level of acceptance and appreciation of my work.

The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.

Upon receiving my notification of acceptance to the university, my parents noticed that they were obliged to submit to the university, among other things, a copy of my official family register. After much mental anguish, they decided to inform me of the secret of my birth.

The tenacious character I've possessed since I was a small child propelled me to successfully meet this challenge, and I was able to safely gain acceptance to the university of my choice.

The homosexual community has more acceptance in America than it ever has, and the suicide rate is as high as it's always been.

Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.

Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.

At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.

Lack of documentation is becoming a problem for acceptance.

PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy.

If the Republicans think that by having stated and even achieved most of the Contract that they are therefore entitled to the acceptance and favor of the American voter, they're crazy.

There is a growing acceptance and interest in publicly funded school choice as a catalyst for education reform in general and a way to empower parents to be education reformers.

One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.

The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.