Quotes about Approval

If you have the smile of God what does it matter if you have the frown of men?

What the winner of a finite game wins is a title. A title is the acknowledgment of others that one has been the winner of a particular game. I cannot entitle myself. Titles are theatrical, requiring an audience to bestow and respect them.

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.

People's love for us may change, depending on what we do or don't do to please them. But God's does not-it's everlasting.

Some of us are addicted to what others think.

If pleasing people is your goal, you will be enslaved to them. People can be harsh taskmasters when you give them this power over you.

Externally I had appeared kind, gracious, and patient, when inwardly I was nothing like that. I so wanted to present a polished image as a good Christian that I cut myself off from what was going on within myself. Unconsciously I had been thinking: I hope I am a good-enough Christian. Will this couple like us? Will they think we are okay? Will John give a good report of his visit to my pastor friend? Pretending was safer than honesty and vulnerability. The

To the wind with what the world thinks about us. We are not to seek the approval of earth, but the honor of heaven.

They'll not blame me. They'll not object to me. They'll not mind what I do, if it's wrong. I'm only Mr. Dick.

What matters most is not what I think I am or am not. What matters is what my Father sees in me and what He says about me.

Their offer seemed good to Hamor and his son Shechem.

It is better to enter into life maimed but lovely in God's sight than to appear lovely to man's eyes but lame to God's.