The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.

Lukewarm acceptance is more bewildering than outright rejection.

If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.