Quotes about Affirmation

I now deserve love. romance, and joy - and all the good that Life has to offer me.

Look in the mirror. You must first love yourself before you can receive true love from someone else.

Start your child's day with love and encouragement and end the day the same way.

Many parents make the mistake of giving love and approval to their children only when their children do something that they want them to do.

I didn't want to be a religious professional whose identity was institutionalized. I didn't want to be a pastor whose sense of worth derived from whether people affirmed or ignored me. In short, I didn't want to be a pastor in the ways that were most in evidence and most rewarded in the American consumerist and celebrity culture.

A beautiful discipline of the soul can become sappy, mindless counsel, if we divorce it from the biblical roots of honesty, grief, lament, and genuine celebration from which it originates. No! If we are to live praising lives, robust lives of affirmation, we must live truly, honestly, and courageously. We cannot take shortcuts to the act of praising. We cannot praise prematurely.

My words to my wife are to refresh, encourage and help bring her into her destiny.

I deserve to have boundaries, and my boundaries are respected. I love and honor myself. I am safe. All is well.

Life is our greatest possession and love its greatest affirmation.

Those in the circle of Christ had no doubt of his love; those in our circles should have no doubt about ours.

Baby, I've been thinking and now I am sure. You are the greatest woman I've ever met.

Prayer and meditation help us affirm that our Higher Power cares for us.