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But as surely as God is faithful, our message to you is not “Yes” and “No.”
— 2 Corinthians 1:18
The courage to say no, the courage to say yes. Decisions do determine Destiny.
— Thomas Monson
A Best Yes is a wise yes. The Bible reminds us, "Get all the advice and instruction you can, so you will be wise the rest of your life" (Prov. 19:20 NLT).
— Lysa TerKeurst
Was it just that? She was to be content to weave a steady life with him, all one fabric, but perhaps brocaded with the occasional flower of an adventure. But how could she know what she would feel next year? How could one ever know? How could one say Yes? for years and years? The little yes, gone on a breath! Why should one be pinned down by that butterfly word? Of course it had to flutter away and be gone, to be followed by other yes's and no's! Like the straying of butterflies.
— DH Lawrence
The Truth lies not in the Yes and not in the No, but in the knowledge and the beginning from which the Yes and the No arise.
— Karl Barth
It was the call of workers who organized; women who reached for the ballot; a President who chose the moon as our new frontier; and a King who took us to the mountain top and pointed the way to the Promised Land. Yes we can!
— Barack Obama
the bottom line of assurance comes when you stop analyzing and you look to Christ and you look and you look and you look until Christ himself in his glory and his sufficiency by reflex, as it were, awakens a self-forgetful "Yes!" to him.
— John Piper
Serenity comes from the ability to say "Yes" to existence. Courage comes from the ability to say "No" to the wrong choices made by others.
— Ayn Rand
As the evening beckons with the promise of tomorrow... may your gratitude rise up and with strength answer, "yes."
— Mary Anne Radmacher
If you must say yes, say it with an open heart. If you must say no, say it without fear.
— Paulo Coelho
God tries to first create a joyous yes inside of you, far more than any kind of no . . . Just saying no is resentful dieting, whereas finding your deeper yes, and eating from that table, is always a spiritual banquet.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Yet historically, the teaching of original sin started us off on the wrong foot—with a no instead of a yes, with a mistrust instead of a trust.
— Fr. Richard Rohr