Quotes About Approbation

El Nuevo Testamento no parece avergonzarse de las imprecaciones del Antiguo Testamento; de lo contrario, las cita libremente como afirmaciones autoritativas con las cuales puede dar fundamento a un argumento. El Nuevo Testamento no solo cita pasajes que, aunque en sí no sean imprecaciones, se encuentran en un Salmo que contiene una sección imprecatoria; sino que además, y esto es aun más llamativo, cita con aprobación las imprecaciones mismas.

The free system of government we have established is so congenial with reason, with common sense, and with a universal feeling, that it must produce approbation and a desire of imitation, as avenues may be found for truth to the knowledge of nations.

For me, if I have done my duty, the continued approbation of Congress and the Marine Committee will make me rich indeed, and far more than reward me for a life of service devoted from principles of philanthropy, to support the dignity of human nature.

It was better to avoid ostentatious piety and pray in the privacy of one's cell because 'if we pray when others are present, their approbation may rob our prayer of . . . its effect'.25 There would be no sudden illumination;

Who confers reputation? who gives respect and veneration to persons, to books, to great men? Who but Opinion? How utterly insufficient are all the riches of the world without her approbation!

Prefer not the esteem of men to the approbation of God.

We're paying him an awful lot of money to tell us we're wonderful. And then, as if another voice had interposed itself, Nice work if you can get it.

This day, Gen. Washington, Gen. Mifflin and four others of the convention did us the honor of paying us a visit in order to see our vineyard and bee houses," said Peter Legaux, a French immigrant. "In this they found great delight, asked a number of questions, and testified their highest approbation with my manner of managing bees.

Indeed upon much that may have to say, I expect rather the charitable judgment than the full assent of those whose approbation I could most wish to win.

Fear, prejudice, malice, and the love of approbation bribe a thousand men where gold bribes one.

Mental tranquility and physical health are coveted, not the approbation of the Lord.

Of whom to be disprais'd were no small praise.

when we say of any one that he is generous. The word generosity expresses a certain state of mind, but being a term of praise, it also expresses that this state of mind excites in us another mental state, called approbation.

Teach them that the approbation and smiles of Jesus are of greater value than the praise or flattery or approval of the most wealthy, the most exalted, the most learned of the earth.

Our greatest pleasure consists in being admired; but those who admire us, even if they have every reason to do so, are slow to express their sentiments. Hence, he is the happiest man who, no matter how, manages sincerely to admire himself — so long as other people leave him alone.

That we manifest our approbation of the Westminster Assembly's Catechism, as containing an excellent system of divinity; and we purpose to preach agreeably to the doctrines of the Bible exhibited therein.

If fame belonged to me, I could not escape her; if she did not, the longest day would pass me on the chase, and the approbation of my dog would forsake me then. My barefoot rank is better.

According to Locke, "self-interest and the conveniences of this life make many men own an outward profession and approbation" of the moral laws of nature. The actions of rational and virtuous men "sufficiently prove that they very little consider the Law-giver that prescribed these rules, nor the hell he has ordained for the punishment of those that transgress them."49

If there ever was a war undertaken in the name of God in his service, at his command, under his approbation, it is the war to which the whole north has risen as one man.

I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.

When I did well, I heard it never; When I did ill, I heard it ever.

The desperate hunger our president has for approbation has led him to such lengths as claiming that God stopped the rain during his Inauguration. In fact, Mother Nature made sure it rained on Trump's hair the minute he started his speech.

Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.

You are undoubtedly acquainted with my Reputation, and as for my Penmanship it must speak for itself; this is to desire your Approbation to keep a public school.