Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves.
We don't earn God's love; we receive it. We don't work for His approval; He approves us.
You make your work and you can't ask for approval when you're doing it. Otherwise, it's going to be untruthful in some way.
Face it: a nation that maintains a 72% approval rating on George W. Bush is a nation with a very loose grip on reality.
Even if every program were educational and every advertisement bore the seal of approval of the American Dental Association, we would still have a critical problem. It's not just the programs but the act of watching television hour after hour after hour that's destructive.
Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest for approval.
If you seek approval from others in this world, you will not know happiness.
Marriage is not defined in the federal Constitution at all; it's a matter for the states. And applying the Fourteenth Amendment to the equality of men and women and their relationship in marriage is totally different than redefining marriage. Here is the overreach of the judiciary. This, if allowed to stand without any congressional approval, without any kind of enabling legislation, is what Jefferson warned us about. That's judicial tyranny.
I became an overachiever to get approval from the world.
What higher approval could a person enjoy than to know that what he or she has done is pleasing to God?
The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval.
We are not to be so concerned about who approves or disapproves of us, but remember that God's approval is what counts. Those whom God approves are approved indeed.