Quotes about Acknowledgment
Admitting to a problem is the first step toward finding a solution. Confessing a sin is the beginning of redemption.
— John Perkins
Go Out of Your Way to Praise Those "Quiet" Performers Who Make Things Happen.
— John Wooden
Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
— Dale Carnegie
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
— William James
It is only by acknowledging that you have created everything up until now that you can take charge of creating the future you want.
— Jack Canfield
Attribute to God every good that you have received. If you take credit for something that does not belong to you, you will be guilty of theft.
— St. Anthony of Padua
Gratitude isn't a tool to manipulate the universe or God. It's a way to acknowledge our faith that everything happens for a reason even if we don't know what that reason is. ~Melody Beattie, 52 Weeks of Conscious Contact, pg. 34.
— Melody Beattie
This is where we pull a chair up to our Father's table. We acknowledge that he has the means to feed us—whatever our hunger is. We go to him with our most basics needs anticipating he will feed us from his bounty. We ask because it demonstrates not only our need, but our trust in his provision for us.
— Mike Breen
At the heart of the human condition, we might say, is an epistemological sin—the refusal to acknowledge what can be known about God and then to respond appropriately: "Although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him" (Rom. 1:21). They engage in willful blindness.
— Nancy Pearcey
The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Jean Jacques Rousseau was at least right about this: better to face up to one's chains than to deck them with flowers and pretend they are not chains." ? Os Guinness, A Free People's Suicide: Sustainable Freedom and the American Future
— Os Guinness