If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.
– Thomas Kempis
Related Quotes:
- All men desire peace, but very few desire those things that make for peace. – Thomas Kempis
- Think outside of the box. Work outside of the box. Dream outside of the box. Succeed outside of the box. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Nothing, how little so ever it be, if it is suffered for God’s sake, can pass without merit in the sight of God. – Thomas Kempis
- I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you. – Friedrich Nietzsche
- Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry… – Thomas Jefferson
- Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions more than our opinions in physics or geometry. – Thomas Jefferson
- God often grants in a moment what He has long denied. – Thomas Kempis
- Grace is God’s acceptance of us. Faith is our acceptance of God accepting us. – Adrian Rogers
- A book has but one voice, but it does not instruct everyone alike. – Thomas Kempis
- Let all things be loved for the sake of Jesus, but Jesus for His own sake. – Thomas Kempis
- Wherever you go, there you are. – Thomas Kempis
- The Lord bestows his blessings there, where he finds the vessels empty. – Thomas Kempis
- If thou art willing to suffer no adversity, how wilt thou be the friend of Christ? – Thomas Kempis
- At the Day of Judgement we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done. – Thomas Kempis
- Real freedom is freedom from the opinions of others. Above all, freedom from your opinions about yourself. – Brennan Manning
- So many people of liberal persuasion value their own progressive opinions more than they value the people they hold those opinions about. – Stephen L Carter
- Opinions are many, but there is only one truth. Don’t get lost in opinions. – Debasish Mridha MD
- If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good – Ezra Pound
- Though people know the meaning of the word acceptance, people are ignorant about it. Thinking acceptance may hurt their self esteem. – Pushkar Saraf
- Note that acceptance is different from approval. Acceptance is simply saying, -œIt is so. – Margie Warrell
- What makes the engine go?Desire, desire, desire. – Stanley Kunitz
- There is no greater freedom than the freedom to desire. There is no greater desire than the desire to be free. – R A Delmonico
- The greatest desire is the desire to be free. The greatest freedom is the freedom to desire. – RADelmonico
- To desire to change one’s past means there is a desire to change oneself. To desire to change oneself, one must learn to change. – Lorii Myers
- Desire is life trying to continue to be life. All living things desire, bacteria feel desire. Life is wanting. – Kim Stanley Robinson
- …there was a natural comorbidity between sexual appetite and sexual jealousy, between the desire to ???? and the desire to kill. – M Thomas Gammarino
- Looking outside of yourself for love and acceptance, leaves your happiness in the hands of others. – Debra Beck
- Denial is fear gone delusional. Acceptance is fear given to God. Engaging is fear overruled by God. Victory is fear banished by God. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- If we all desire love and acceptance, shouldn’t we love and accept all others? – Rob Liano
- God is willing! God will save! God will rescue! God will restore! God will revive! God will empower! God willing and He will do it! – Israelmore Ayivor
- What kind of God is it who’s upset by a cartoon in Da – Salman Rushdie
- We often hear about stepping outside ourselves, but rarely about stepping outside our generation. – Criss Jami
- When the two become the oneAnd the inside outside, the outside inSo that the male be not male nor the female femaleThen will you see me. – Wesley Stace
- Creativity is not just thinking outside the box but living outside it. – Victor Shamas
- Don’t try to think outside the box- get outside the box, then think! – Adam Hartung
- How we respond to the opportunities and challenges of the outside world now determines how much the outside world values us. – Seth Godin
- I am Rabbit. I can be anywhere. I can be everywhere. I am outside time. I am outside dimension. – Mark Andrew Poe
- I am Rabbit. I can be anywhere. I can be everywhere. I am outside time. I am outside dimension. Do you want me? I am yours. – Mark Andrew Poe
- Always look outside of the box, unless there is something exceedingly dangerous outside of the box in which case it might be wiser to stay inside. – Holly Wujcik
- The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction. – Thomas Jefferson