Best acceptance & reason Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“That the religious right completely took over the word Christian is a given. At one time, phrases such as Christian charity and Christian tolerance were used to denote kindness and compassion. To perform a "Christian" act meant an act of giving, of acceptance, of toleration. Now, Christian is invariably linked to right-wing conservative political thought -- Christian nation, Christian morality, Christian values, Christian family.”

“Vitality springs from diversity -- which makes for real progress so long as there is mutual toleration, based on the recognition that worse may come from an attempt to suppress differences than from acceptance of them. For this reason, the kind of peace that makes progress possible is best assured by the mutual checks created by a balance of forces-alike in the sphere of internal politics and of international relations.”

Source: Why Don't We Learn from History?

“I think rap music is the sole reason for a lot of black acceptance in pop culture; because the music is very popular, it gets our image out in other ways than in movies.”

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Author:Ice Cube

“How on earth can religious people believe in so much arbitrary, clearly invented balderdash?....The acceptance of a creed, any creed, entitles the acceptor to membership in the sort of artificial extended family we call a congregation. It is a way to fight loneliness. Any time I see a person fleeing from reason and into religion, I think to myself, There goes a person who simply cannot stand being so goddamned lonely anymore.”

Source: Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage

“And the reason is found in the first lie - the lie which you hold as the truth about God - that God cannot be trusted; that God's love cannot be depended upon; that God's acceptance of you is conditional; that the ultimate outcome is thus in doubt. For if you cannot depend on God's love to always be there, on whose love can you depend? If God retreats and withdraws when you do not perform properly, will not mere mortals also?”

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Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“It follows that the word probability, in its mathematical acceptance, has reference to the state of our knowledge of the circumstances under which an event may happen or fail. With the degree of information we possess concerning the circumstances of an event, the reason we have to think that it will occur, or, to use a single term, our expectation of it will vary. Probability is the expectation founded upon partial knowledge.”

Thinking May States Reason Use Happens Term Failing Events Information Acceptance Circumstances Degrees Expectations Mathematical Probability Vary

Book:An Investigation of the Laws of Thought

Source: An Investigation of the Laws of Thought

“The more tremendous the divinity is represented, the more tame and submissive do men become his ministers: And the more unaccountable the measures of acceptance required by him, the more necessary does it become to abandon our natural reason, and yield to their ghostly guidance and direction.”

Men Doe Reason Natural Acceptance Ministers Guidance Divinity Abandon Yield Submissive Guidance And Direction

Book:The Natural History of Religion

Source: The Natural History of Religion

“I got tattoos for purely antisocial reasons, and now people do it for social acceptance. I miss the individualism.”

People Reason Social Missing Acceptance Individualism Tattoo Antisocial Social Acceptance

Author:Mike Ness

“The church doctrines of obedience to authority, repentance, fear of punishment, self-abnegation, acceptance of outer direction rather than inner assurance, elevation of faith over reason, and intolerance make institutionalized religion an ideal instrument of social constraint.”

Self Reason Social Church Acceptance Authority Ideals Instruments Punishment Doctrine Obedience Repentance Intolerance Assurance Constraints Elevation Abnegation Obedience To Authority

Book:Freedom Under Siege: The Impact of Organized Religion on Your Liberty and Your Pocketbook

Source: Freedom Under Siege: The Impact of Organized Religion on Your Liberty and Your Pocketbook

“Man has a single basic choice: to think or not, and that is the gauge of his virtue. Moral perfection is an unbreached rationality-not the degree of your intelligence, but the full and relentless use of your mind, not the extent of your knowledge, but the acceptance of reason as an absolute.”

Thinking Men Mind Reason Use Choices Moral Virtue Acceptance Degrees Perfection Absolutes Rationality Relentless Gauges Moral Perfection

Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“It far easier to find a reason not to love someone, than otherwise. Rejection requires only one reason. Love requires complete acceptance.”

Reason Acceptance Easier Rejection Love Someone

Author:Adrian Tan

“Someone asked me recently, "Do you get sick of people asking you about your hair?" And the reason I don't is because I actually feel like you could chronicle my journey of self-acceptance through my journey with my hair. It's a badge of something bigger.”

People Feels Self Reason Journey Acceptance Like You Hair Sick Bigger Asking Self Acceptance Badges Chronicles My Journey

Author:Tracee Ellis Ross

“Philosophy has to be enquiring; it can take nothing on faith, and its methods are based not on the blind acceptance of authority, but on establishing truths by reason and argument.”

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Author:Julian Baggini

“It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.”

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Author:Jonathan Swift

“Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season?”

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Book:The Collected Prose of Robert Frost

Source: The Collected Prose of Robert Frost

“I didn't mean for you to take that the wrong way," He said abruptly. Mae stared at him in amazement. So, for that matter, did Jamie. "What?" "Demons don't touch anyone without a reason," Nick went on, his eyes shut again. "You can imagine what kind of reasons we usually have. I don't like--not anyone--I didn't mean anything by it." "Oh," said Jamie. "Oh, that's okay! That's fine. I understand. I am filled to the brim with understanding and, and acceptance! I'm very Zen like that.”

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Book:The Demon's Covenant

Source: The Demon's Covenant

“Reason lost the battle, and all I could do was surrender and accept I was in love.”

Reason Lost Accepting Acceptance Battle Surrender

Author:Paulo Coelho

“The revealed and mystic literature of mankind bears ample testimony to the fact that religious experience has been too enduring and dominant in the history of mankind to be rejected as mere illusion. There seems to be no reason, then, to accept the normal level of human experience as fact and reject its other levels as mystical and emotional.”

Source: The religious thought in Islam

“Only in truth does charity shine forth, only in truth can charity be authentically lived. Truth is the light that gives meaning and value to charity. That light is both the light of reason and the light of faith, through which the intellect attains to the natural and supernatural truth of charity: it grasps its meaning as gift, acceptance, and communion. Without truth, charity degenerates into sentimentality. Love becomes an empty shell, to be filled in an arbitrary way.”

“Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain.”

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Author:Alexander Pope

“We already have so much abundance. We truly do. We need not search too far. It is within. The reason we fail to recognize this is because we haven't quite mastered the art of being. For abundance to prevail, we must have LOVE, gratitude, acceptance and compassion.”

Love Needs Art Reason Compassion Failing Havens Acceptance Gratitude Prosperity Abundance Love Gratitude

Author:John Welwood

“Democracy is no easy form of government. Few nations have been able to sustain it. For it requires that we take the chances of freedom; that the liberating play of reason be brought to bear on events filled with passion; that dissent be allowed to make its appeal for acceptance; that men chance error in their search for the truth.”

Source: Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy

“Theres another reason for working inside the system. Dostoevsky said that taking a new step is what people fear most. Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution.”

“There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown social laws. These are simply decisions made within institutions that are subject to human will and that must face the test of legitimacy. And if they do not meet the test, they can be replaced by other institutions that are more free and more just, as has happened often in the past.”

“Know that whatever is happening in your life right now, it's there for a reason. Just accept the things the way they are. Just relax and let go of all the mental constructs that your mind is creating. Acceptance leads to wholesome right action.”

Knows Way Mind Reason Action Healing Accepting Acceptance Right Now Letting Go Creating Happenings Relax Constructs Right Action

Author:Brandon Bays

“When someone hurts you, your first thought may be to wish you had never met them at all. But remember that even those who've hurt you, came into your life for a reason, and left for a reason. It’s for the best and healing starts with acceptance.”

Firsts May Reason Remember Left Wish Hurt Healing Acceptance Mets Wish You Hurt Feelings People In Your Life Everything Happens For A Reason

Author:Yasmin Mogahed

“Widespread cultural acceptance of lying is a primary reason many of us will never know love”

Knows Reason Lying Acceptance Primaries

Author:Bell Hooks

“To win men to acceptance of Jesus Christ as Saviour and Lord is the only reason Christians are left in this world.”

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Author:R. A. Torrey

“The reason I'm in this business, I assume all performers are -- it's Look at me, Ma! It's acceptance, you know -- Look at me, Ma, look at me, Ma, look at me, Ma. And if your mother watches, you'll show off till you're exhausted; but if your mother goes, Ptshew!”

Ifs Knows Looks Reason Shows Mother Watches Acceptance Assuming Entertainment Performers Exhausted Look At Me Showing Off

Author:Lenny Bruce

“Be absolute with death. Either death or life Shall thereby be the sweeter. Reason thus with life: If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep.”

Reason Wisdom Death Suffering Grief Grace Dying Acceptance

Book:Measure for Measure

Source: Measure for Measure

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