Quotes about Approval
Fear of men's judgment manifests itself in competition for men's approval.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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.
— Gary Thomas
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.
— Gary Thomas
If you make a choice that doesn't please your mate, your friends, your mother, or whoever, the world will not fall apart - the people who truly love you want you to love yourself.
— Oprah Winfrey
He didn't want to be great, but to be thought great.
— Ayn Rand
I loved the fact that it wasn't my responsibility to change somebody, that it was God's, that my part was just to communicate love and approval.
— Donald Miller
Do not confuse the command to love with the disease to please.
— Lysa TerKeurst
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.
— Brian Tracy
I was always in places where I was widely accepted, approved and loved and I was finally in a place where people did not approve of me, did not accept me and did not love me. It was killing me.
— Tullian Tchividjian
Jesus is the descent of God to our lives, just as they are, not the ascent of our lives to God, hoping he might approve when he sees how hard we try.
— Eugene Peterson
The second redemption upstaged the first. God sent not Moses but Jesus. He smote not Pharaoh but Satan. Not with ten plagues but a single cross. The Red Sea didn't open, but the grave did, and Jesus led anyone who wanted to follow him to the Land of No More. No more law keeping. No more striving after God's approval. 'You can rest now,' he told them.
— Max Lucado
The unquestioning acceptance by my peers had dislodged the familiar insecurity.
— Maya Angelou