“To better understand God we must first shatter our own idea of God - maybe even day after day. Maybe he's too great to stay compressed in the human mind. Maybe he splits it wide open; this is why pretentious intellectualism so often fails to comprehend the concept of God: it is only accepting of what it can explain while in the process finding higher sources offensive. What we may confidently assert is that faith is the opening that allows God, this unpredictable, unseen power, to travel in and out of the mind without all the pains of confusion.” MindFirstsHumansMayIdeasPainProcessAcceptingFailingSourceHigherFindingsConceptsWideOpeningConfusionHuman MindSplitsOffensiveUnseenUnpredictablePretentiousIntellectualism Author:Criss Jami
“Anybody who has ever done anything knows that, when you believe, it doesn't matter what other people think. You just have to keep finding a way to align your vision with other people who will receive and accept your vision. And when the time is right, if it is for you, it will show itself, if you believe.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWayBelieveMatterDoneShowsAcceptingVisionFindingsIf You Believe Author:Oprah Winfrey
“Over the past few years, the Supreme Court was six times more likely to accept cases from an elite group of 66 lawyers than it was from more than 99 percent of those who petitioned the court. That's the finding of a recent Reuters special report called "The Echo Chamber." It illustrates how almost half the appeals accepted by the court over a nine-year period came from this cadre of elite lawyers--many of whom have personal connections to the nine justices.” YearsPastJusticeHalfAcceptingCasesGroupsSpecialPeriodsSixFindingsPercentConnectionsCourtLawyerAcceptedSupremeNineAppealsReportsElitesEchoesSupreme CourtChamberOver The PastNine YearsPersonal ConnectionCadre Author:Dahlia Lithwick
“As with many metaphysical and religious questions, Kant thinks they lie beyond our power to answer them. If you can't stand the frustration involved in accepting this, and insist on finding some more stable position which affords you peace of mind and intellectual self-complacency, then you will find Kant's position "problematic" in the sense that you can't bring yourself to accept it. You may try to kid yourself into accepting either some naturalistic deflationary answer to the problem or some dishonest supernaturalist answer.” IfsThinkingTryingMindMaySelfProblemKidsLyingReligiousAnswersAcceptingPositionInvolvedFindingsIntellectualFrustrationPeace Of MindStableMetaphysicalComplacency Author:Allen W. Wood
“It's really scary, when you're on the verge of becoming a teenager, and you don't know if people like you for you or if they like you for the show you're on. So I started finding friends who were not that way, who are accepting and see you who you are.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayShowsAcceptingLike YouBecomingFindingsWho You AreScaryTeenagerVergeReally Scary Author:Rowan Blanchard
“I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?” IfsThinkingMenShouldTryingStoriesHomeUsedAcceptingWallFindingsFunctionPrisonPityToneFairyTopicsScornEscapismScornedFairy StoriesJailerPrison WallsFantasy StoriesFiction Stories Author:J. R. R. Tolkien
“If scientific analysis were conclusively to demonstrate certain claims in Buddhism to be false, then we must accept the findings of science and abandon those claims.” IfsInspirationalCertainReligionAcceptingBuddhismFindingsClaimsAnalysisAbandonScience Religion Author:Dalai Lama
“It is not by sidestepping or fleeing from suffering that we are healed, but rather by our capacity for accepting it, maturing through it and finding meaning through union with Christ, who suffered with infinite love.” SufferingChristAcceptingFindingsCapacityInfiniteUnionsMatureHealedFleeingInfinite Love Author:Pope Benedict XVI
“I'm convinced true fulfillment is living in God's world one day at a time, savoring it, leaving today's disapointments behind and borrowing no troubles from tomorrow. It's done not only by accepting life, fever, and things that go bump in the night, but also by cultivating love and new and old friendships, and especially by finding a new work or project that makes it exciting just to get up in the morning.” WorldDoneTodayNightBehindsAcceptingMorningTroubleTomorrowOne DayFindingsProjectsExcitingLeavingConvincedGet UpFulfillmentFeverBumpsBorrowingCultivatingOne Day At A TimeSavoringNew WorkAccepting LifeOld Friendship Author:Olive Ann Burns
“Needing was so easy: it came naturally, like breathing. Being needed by someone else, though, that was the hard part. But as with giving help and accepting it, we had to do both to be made complete-like links overlapping to form a chain, or a lock finding the right key.” GivingMadeHardHelpingFormEasyAcceptingKeysNeededFindingsChainsBreathingLinksLocksOverlappingGiving Help Book:Lock and Key Source: Lock and Key
“It was finally becoming clear to her that love wasn't about finding someone perfect to marry. Love was about seeing through to the truth of a person, and accepting all their shades of light and dark. Love was an ability.” PersonsLightRomanceDarkAbilityPerfectAcceptingClearSeeingBecomingFindingsShadeLight And DarkFinding Someone Book:Tempt Me At Twilight: Number 3 in series Source: Tempt Me At Twilight: Number 3 in series