Quotes About Affirmation

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The anthropocentric version of the God of Christianity will not avail. . . . Instead emerges a new hero, a new messiah, a new superman. He will seek to weld all together in a terrible act of unbelievable affirmation beyond the limits of common human desire, beyond common hope. He will free himself through the ancient acts of violation — fornication, incest, rape. . . . His name is the Rev. Dr. Arthur Barclay.

one affirmative from God's mouth for thy pardoned state, carries more weight, though of old date, than a thousand negatives from Satan's. David's

are incurably conceited and pathologically unsure of themselves; they respond to stroking the way a cat does.

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

I believe we are most alive when we are being thought about by others who love us.

My mother encouraged it so much. She was so supportive. Even if as a kid, I would do the dumbest trick, which now that I look back on some things, she would love it, she would say that's amazing, or if I'd make the ugliest drawing, she would hang it up. She was amazing.

I mean, you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you're wonderful every time you do something I think that's human nature.

Puisses-tu ne jamais oublier que je crois en toi.

She had not known how to tell him that his loving whispers were always in her ears, like a story she'd been told, the story of a thing she did not deserve. But he understood. He called those thoughts "the baby teeth of a snake," and swore he would rip them out of her, and pledged to prove to her that the opposite was true. And he didn't even have to explain to her what he meant by "the opposite"; she knew it was the opposite of her.

A leader must lead. Where others see obstacles, he must see opportunities. When others see problems, he must see possibilities ... Civilization is not built on a negation but on an affirmation- an affirmation of the bright and promising possibilities that the future holds for those who are enterprising enough to pursue them.

If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it.

God is not in a hurry to fix us. Our behavior is not his first priority. We are his first priority. Loving us, knowing us, affirming us, protecting us. That is his top goal and his main concern.

More consequences for thought and action follow the affirmation or denial of God than from answering any other basic question.

I rejoice in the bounty of God, constantly manifesting as overflowing supply here and now.

Faith is agreeing with God and saying what He says about you.

I rarely let the word NO escape from my mouth, because it is so plain to my soul that God has shouted, Yes! Yes! Yes! To every luminous movement in existence.

I do not deny "God", because that word conveys to me no idea, and I cannot deny that which presents to me no distinct affirmation, and of which the would-be affirmer has no conception.

An affirmation to say everyday: The healing power of God is working in me right now. Eveyr day I get better and better in every way.

Say you are well, or all is well with you, and God shall hear your words and make them true.

One of the ways we can bear the image of God well is to see things in others they don't see themselves and call that out of them.

Art, if it is successful in the task of questioning reality, if it is good painting and not merely a performance of dexterity, will be an affirmation of God.

People crave encouragement, and sometimes the greatest encouragement is the writing of words that endure. Perhaps you can pen a note of affirmation and approval to someone today.

We are here to affirm, not to deny... when we affirm all that is God, all that is not God is automatically denied.