Quotes about Affirmation

All my life, my church, my family, my friends have always told me to have high self-esteem... to think well of myself. And that's what I've done.

My parents were just constantly affirming me in everything that I did. Late at night, I'd wake up and hear my mother talking over my bed, saying, 'You're going to do great on this test. You can do anything you want.'

This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. I have what it says I have. I can do what it says I can do.

I don't think older Christians can ever fully know what an important role they play in the affirmation of younger believers. When you're just a youth, it means so much to have someone who's farther along the road say to you, "I see something in you, and I want you to be encouraged in it.

Even the Koran, written six hundred years after Jesus, affirmed His virgin birth (see Surah 19, 19-21). This would serve Islam no self-glorifying purpose.

I will say positive, hopeful things no matter how I feel.

Make a list of your blessings and read them out loud anytime you feel yourself starting to sink emotionally.

Love Yourself Today: "Lord, I declare that I love myself because You love me. The more I love myself, the more I can love others.

Every time you think anything good about anyone, verbalize it. People cannot read your mind; your thoughts have power and may affect their confidence level in a minor way, but your words can really lift them up and encourage them. All people need affirmation

If we say a thing often enough, silently in our hearts or verbally, we will believe it.

The Jews remain the chosen people of God. The Jewish rejection of Jesus as the Son of God is an affirmation of faith that Christians must respect.

Standing there in her robe, that ridiculous robe, with the socks and slippers bulging from the pockets, Jonas saw a glint, the sparkle of a buried gem, in Tenley. He saw a woman worthy of love. Deserving of a man who would give her himself.