To give thanks to God is acknowledge His goodness.

Black music has always known, and not been afraid to acknowledge just how high the stakes of Black thought are. To summarize the final…

— Frank B. Wilderson III

I'm a Christian because Christianity names and addresses sin. It acknowledges the reality that the evil we observe in the world is also present…

— Rachel Held Evans

The only way to ease our fear and be truly happy is to acknowledge our fear and look deeply at its source. Instead of…

— Anonymous

On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.

— William Jennings Bryan

You can't go into games with any fear. You can acknowledge a good team but you can't go in worrying.

— Reece James

Conservative feminism is such an artificial term that doesn't mean much to me. For me conservatism means accepting reality. I acknowledge that there are…

— Kristina Schroder

We must acknowledge that bearing and raising children is not some pesky, peripheral activity that we engage in, but the whole point.

— Susan Maushart

When we pray, we must begin by conceiving God in full and vigorous images, but we must go on to acknowledge the inadequacy of…

— Austin Farrer

Acknowledging foolishness is a very powerful and important experience. We could almost say that being willing to be a fool is one of the…

— Chogyam Trungpa

Actually, when I look at my old notebooks, I think I have been a bit self-indulgent and have given myself too much time to…

— Natalie Goldberg

I would like, then, to end by putting in a good word for the non-industrious poor. At least they aren’t hurting anyone. Insofar as…

— David Graeber

No one seriously doubts Socrates' maxim: The unexamined life isn't worth living. Self-assessment and attempts at self-improvement are essential aspects of "the good life."…

— Robert A. Burton

As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb.…

— Susan Sontag

It is in the measure that special methods acknowledge their common core in transcendental method, that norms common to all the sciences will be…

— Bernard Lonergan

I can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them.

— Abigail Adams