Quotes about Affirmation

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.

According to Earnie Larsen and others, the two deepest desires most people have are: to love and be loved, and to believe they are worthwhile and know someone else believes that also.1

Lord, You know me. You know my natural personality is given to fear. You know all my insecurities. You know that I have a need to be loved and to feel significant and to feel affirmed. And Father, I'm not going to ask my family to do that for me today. They may or may not, and if they do, that's wonderful. But Father, You are my sole satisfaction, and I ask You to satisfy me this morning with Your unfailing love.