Acknowledge Quotes - Page 20

• God’s grace does not come to people who morally outperform others, but to those who admit their failure to perform and who acknowledge their need for a Savior.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Religious, People

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.38, Penguin

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• Don't worry about achieving. Don't worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can. When you realize you've wandered off again, simply very lightly acknowledge that. This light touch is the golden key to reuniting with our openness.

  Pema Chodron

  Keys, Light, Worry

  Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.18, Shambhala Publications

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• I now understand that my welfare is only possible if I acknowledge my unity with all the people of the world without exception.

  Leo Tolstoy

  People, Unity, World

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1989). “I Cannot be Silent: Writings on Politics, Art and Religion by Leo Tolstoy”

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• It takes a warrior's courage to acknowledge that your point of view matters, that your truth matters, that your gifts matter, and that your presence on this earth matters. You don’t have to earn this right; it’s yours as part of your birthright.

  Debbie Ford

  Warrior, Views, Earth

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• To desire Him to be merciful to us is to acknowledge Him as God. To seek His pity when we deserve no pity is to ask Him to be just with a justice so holy that it knows no evil and shows mercy to everyone who does not fly from Him in despair.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Acknowledge Him, Evil

  Thomas Merton (2002). “No Man Is an Island”, p.234, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Let's acknowledge that America's increasing decadence is giving aid and comfort to the enemy. When we tolerate trash on television, permit pornography to invade our homes via the Internet, and allow babies to be killed at the point of birth, we are inflaming radical Islam.

  Charles Colson

  Baby, Home, America

  "Bush Stares Into The Abyss" by Max Blumenthal, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 29, 2005.

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• How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy! Pendennis. Book ii. Chap. xxxi.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Happiness, Book, Chaps

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• I think the Prime Minister is the first to acknowledge that Malaysia's still got some work to do. Just like the United States, by the way, has some work to do on these issues. Human Rights Watch probably has a list of things they think we should be doing as a government.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Issues, Rights

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• The NFL acknowledges that repetitive trauma to the head in football... can cause a permanent, disabiling injury to the brain.

  Bob Fitzsimmons

  Football, Nfl, Brain

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• Obama acknowledges his overreach openly every time he argues that he intends to do the job of an obstinate Republican congress.

  David Harsanyi

  Jobs, Arguing, Notable

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• Unhappy voters thought the anemic economy, Obamacare, the collapse of U.S. foreign policy, the scandals in government, and the incompetent handling of everything from the Islamic State to Ebola were the only real issues. Democrats'€™ refusal to acknowledge them did not make these failures go away.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Real, Islamic, Government

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• When it comes to explaining human thought and behavior, the possibility that heredity plays any role at all still has the power to shock. To acknowledge human nature, many think, is to endorse racism, sexism, war, greed, genocide, nihilism, reactionary politics, and neglect of children and the disadvantaged. Any claim that the mind has an innate organization strikes people not as a hypothesis that might be incorrect but as a thought it is immoral to think.

  Steven Pinker

  Children, War, Thinking

  Steven Pinker (2003). “The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature”, p.14, Penguin

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• I am quite ready to acknowledge . . . that I ought to be grieved at death, if I were not persuaded that I am going to other gods who are wise and good (of this I am as certain as I can be of any such matters), and to men departed who are better than those whom I leave behind. And therefore I do not grieve as I might have done, for I have good hope that there is yet something remaining for the dead.

  Socrates

  Wise, Men, Grieving

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• We need to acknowledge that the death penalty is broken beyond repair.

  George Gascon

  Broken, Needs, Death Penalty

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• It's never too late. Don't focus on what was taken away. Find something to replace it, and acknowledge the blessing you have.

  Drew Barrymore

  Taken, Blessing, Focus

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• If I am truly honest, I have to acknowledge that the demands I am so convinced are coming from the outer world are, in fact, coming from that perpetually unfinished part of me-the pulls and tugs originating from my own ambiguity.

  Joan Anderson

  Change, World, Demand

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• I acknowledge Shakespeare to be the world's greatest dramatic poet, but regret that no parent could place the uncorrected book in the hands of his daughter, and therefore I have prepared the Family Shakespeare.

  Thomas Bowdler

  Daughter, Regret, Book

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• The (capital punishment) controversy passes the anarch by. For him, the linking of death and punishment is absurd. In this respect, he is closer to the wrongdoer than to the judge, for the high-ranking culprit who is condemned to death is not prepared to acknowledge his sentence as atonement; rather, he sees his guilt in his own inadequacy. Thus, he recognizes himself not as a moral but as a tragic person.

  Ernst Junger

  Punishment, Judging, Guilt

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• Is there a point of taxation wherein even a Democrat would acknowledge it is thievery by the government?

  Dennis Prager

  Government, Taxation, Thievery

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• Chance is but the pseudonym of God for those particular cases, which he does not choose to acknowledge openly with his own sign manual.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Doe, Pseudonyms, Chance

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• To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is to acknowledge you are wiser today.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Inspirational, Acknowledge You, Yesterday

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• As long as outmoded ways of thinking prevent women from making a meaningful contribution to society, progress will be slow. As long as the nation refuses to acknowledge the equal role of more than half of itself, it is doomed to failure.

  Nelson Mandela

  Meaningful, Thinking, Long

  "The ultimate male feminist? 5 things Nelson Mandela did for women" by Tara Kelly, www.cnn.com. December 8, 2013.

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• Beloved, whatever we are gripping to bring us satisfaction is a lie-unless it is Christ. He is the Truth that sets us free. If you are holding anything in your craving for satisfaction right now, would you be willing to acknowledge it as a lie? Even if you feel you can't let go of it right this moment, would you lift it before Him-perhaps literally lifting your fisted hand as a symbol-and confess it as an idol? God does not condemn you. He calls you.

  Beth Moore

  Letting Go, Lying, Hands

  Beth Moore (2007). “Breaking Free: Discover the Victory of Total Surrender”, p.69, B&H Publishing Group

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• When you go deeply into the present, gratitude arises spontaneously, even if it's just gratitude for breathing, gratitude for the aliveness that you feel in your body. Gratitude is there when you acknowledge the aliveness of the present moment.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Gratitude, Breathing, Body

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• One cultivates spaciousness or awareness which allows you to acknowledge the emotions and see them as part of the human condition. Emotions are like subtle thought forms and they all arise in response to something outside yourself. They are all reactions. You cultivate a quietness in yourself that watches these emotions rising and falling and passing away.

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  Ram Dass

  Fall, Passing Away, Watches

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