Quotes about Approval

Are you prepared to brave the negative reactions, comments, criticisms, and complaints that may arise from owning your authentic self? Can you handle it? Some people can't. They live without expressing the authenticity of what abides deep within them because the approval of others is more important to them than self-approval.

Don't accept the applause of men, and you won't be destroyed by their criticism.

The greatest weakness in the church today is that the servants of God keep looking over their shoulder for the approval of men.

Why in God's name do you expect to be accepted everywhere? How is it the world couldn't get on with the holiest man that ever lived, and it can get on with you and me?

We tell ourselves, It's important to get a sense of what people are saying about me.' But it really feeds some narcissistic impulse to check and see if people like you.

I love it--I just love it.

No matter what you do, 10% of the population will not like you.

After all, it's woman, who decide, if a man is desirable or undesirable.

Am I going to spend the rest of my life trying to get some kind of approval from him that he's never going to give?

Fear of men's judgment manifests itself in competition for men's approval.

If you're trying to find your primary refuge in your husband, if you've centered your hope on him, if your security depends on his approval, and if you will do almost anything to gain his acceptance, then you've just given to a man what rightfully belongs to God alone. And that means you've turned marriage into idol worship.

If you're trying to find your primary refuge in your husband, if you've centered your hope on him, if your security depends on his approval, and if you will do almost anything to gain his acceptance, then you've just given to a man what rightfully belongs to God alone.