Quotes About God's Approval

#1. The person who prays more in public than in private reveals that he is less interested in God's approval than in human praise. Not piety but a reputation for piety is his concern.

D. A. Carson

#2. Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Thomas S. Monson

#3. Do you really mean the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and reward? That's not morality, that's just sucking up.

Richard Dawkins

#4. Pursuing a dream without God's approval is as dangerous as walking on a rope bridge over a big gutter? Guess the end ... .!

Israelmore Ayivor

#5. Quit dwelling on the negative things people have said about you. You don't have to have everyone's approval. You have God's approval.

Joel Osteen

#6. God's approval is a whole lot easier to get than man's.

Beth Moore

#7. God's approval should be your standard for success.

Jim George

#8. I had a lot of guilt and shame when I was running from God, but nothing like when I was running for God. I was always looking for God's approval, and that's where the guilt and shame came out in a big way.

Jud Wilhite

#9. Because we have a natural tendency to look within ourselves for the basis of God's approval or disapproval, we must make a conscious daily effort to look outside ourselves to the righteousness of Christ, then to stand in the present reality of our justification.

Jerry Bridges

#10. 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.

Myles Munroe

#11. It's possible for someone to act sacrificially and selflessly in the best interests of others while enjoying the fruit: feeling good about having done well and receiving God's approval and reward.

Randy Alcorn

#12. If people talk about you, being jealous, critical, and trying to make you look bad, don't let that change you. You don't need their approval when you have God's approval.

Joel Osteen

#13. No amount of temporal success can compensate for the loss of God's approval.

Max Anders

#14. What higher approval could a person enjoy than to know that what he or she has done is pleasing to God?

R.C. Sproul

#15. Having God's unconditional love does not mean you have God's unconditional approval.

Miles McPherson

#16. For one scant day he had loved himself, felt himself to be unified and whole, not split into hostile parts; he had loved himself and the world and God in himself, and everywhere he went he had met nothing but love, approval, and joy.

Hermann Hesse

#17. God wants to father all of us until we're dead sure of his approval, his guiding power and his promise of heaven.

Bill Hybels

#18. It is all right when God sends us the approval of our fellow men; however, we must never make that approval a motive in our life.

A.B. Simpson

#19. We will never be the women God wants us to be if our hearts are continually chasing after human approval.

Kylie Bisutti

#20. My father was my god. His approval was so valuable to me.

Wilbur Smith

#21. You don't need anyone's approval when it comes to your dream because the dream giver [God]is already approved it that moment He chose you to carry it.The only thing you can do is to remember that you are in the driving seat and you must keep driving until you reach your destination.

Euginia Herlihy

#22. When God gives us a mission, it must not be polluted by a desire for approval from society. We must keep our eyes on Christ, who is our Judge and Deliverer.

Tyndale

#23. Forgiveness doesn't require approval," she said. "God never approves of sin, but he still forgives us.

Sarah Sundin

#24. Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.

Victoria Osteen

#25. When people say, "I know God forgives me, but I can't forgive myself," they mean that they have failed an idol, whose approval is more important than God's.

Timothy Keller

#26. God approves our life if we attain His goals.

Sunday Adelaja

#27. The biggest hindrance in life is to live for other people and crave for their approval. This kind of behaviour diminishes your God given purpose and it leads you to live a barren life. Free yourself from the prison of pretence and live a purposeful lifestyle.

Euginia Herlihy

#28. As a servant desireth the approval of his master, and a son the approval of his father, so should we desire the approval of God and our own conscience.

Ambrose

#29. Repentance, obedience, and spiritual growth bring feelings of love from God; and when we feel approved by God, we won't have to look for approval from others because we feel it from within.

Dean M. Busby

#30. Our desire for approval can only truly be met by receiving God's acceptance and approval of us.

Joyce Meyer

#31. Yield your heart and life to Jesus Christ. Be faithful to Him, no matter what men may do. The important thing is not the praise of men; it is the approval of God.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#32. There was a day when I died; died to self, my opinions, preferences, tastes and will; died to the world, its approval or censure; died to the approval or blame even of my brethren or friends; and since then I have studied only to show myself approved unto God.

George Muller

#33. Why live for the approval of men when you can have the approval of their Creator? What can they give you that God can't?

LeCrae

#34. To love the glory of God more than our own glory is also to seek approval from God rather than other people.

John R.W. Stott

#35. I would rather have the whole world against me but know that the Almighty God is with me, be called an apostate but know that I have the approval of the God of glory

Mehdi Dibaj

#36. Conscience is a vigilant eye before which each imagination, thought, and act is held up for either censure or approval ... There is no greater proof of the existence of a moral law and Lawgiver in the universe than this little light of the soul. It is God's voice to the inner man.

Billy Graham

#37. We don't earn God's love; we receive it. We don't work for His approval; He approves us.

Dillon Burroughs

#38. All you need to find and accomplish God's purpose in your life is God's permission and approval
not anyone else's. When you get in step with Him, there will be a glow on your face that will make people wonder what you're up to.

Zig Ziglar

#39. 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

#40. Be in a close association with your creator whose is ever ready to direct your plans. Always ensure your convictions are divine and backed by a Godly approval.

Israelmore Ayivor

#41. God has levels of willing and delighting. He wills and delights in things in different ways so that approval and disapproval can coexist without being contradictory, without canceling each other out. I am making the case here for infinite complexity.

John Piper

#42. It seems as though we Christians have developed a nasty habit of leading people into a radical encounter with God's unconditional love, forgiveness, acceptance, and union only to spend the ensuing years teaching them how to become close to God to earn his approval.

Ted Dekker

#43. We need not avoid our active lives, but simply bring to them a new vision and shift of gravity. for in the center we are rooted in god's love. in such a place there is no need for striving and impatience and dashing about seeking approval.

Sue Monk Kidd

#44. The increased desire to please God and seek HIS approval will decrease the desire to seek approval from man.

Yvonne Pierre

#45. How often do you cave in to the pressures of the crowd, seeking the approval of others instead of the approval of God? We all like to be liked - but that can be a very dangerous thing. Make it your goal to live for Christ and be faithful to Him, regardless of what the crowd demands.

Billy Graham

#46. The greatest weakness in the church today is that the servants of God keep looking over their shoulder for the approval of men.

R.C. Sproul

#47. Talking to God, I felt, is always better than talking about God; those pious conversations - there's always a touch of self-approval about them. THERESE OF LISIEUX[1] I

Eugene H. Peterson

#48. I often say that if I had a prayer, it would be this: God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen. I

Byron Katie

#49. The standard God has for you has nothing to do with approval, and everything to do with purpose.

Steven Furtick

#50. Do what you do only for God's sake, start for God's sake, work for God's sake, and act within the sphere of God's good approval.

Said Nursi

#51. Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? Or am I trying to please other people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of God. (Gal. 1:10)

Holly Gerth

#52. 10For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying s to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a t servant [2] of Christ.

Anonymous

#53. To be ignored or rejected by people you know doesn't change God's plan about your life and your dreams He has given you. His plan about your life is wayward than the man's approval of your creativity. Keep moving forward with your head held high.

Euginia Herlihy

#54. I was striving to gain the approval of those whose approval was of no eternal significance. I'd failed to see that the only approval that matters--God's--is impossible to earn but is offered as a gift through the gospel.

Bob Kauflin

#55. I reverence the Constitution of the United States as a sacred document. To me its words are akin to the revelations of God, for God has placed his stamp of approval on the Constitution of this land.

Ezra Taft Benson

#56. If I had a prayer, it would be this: "God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen."

Byron Katie

#57. When we are set free from the bondage of pleasing others, when we are free from currying others'approval-then no one will be able to make us miserable or dissatisfied. And then, if we know we have pleased God, contentment will be our consolation.

Kay Arthur

#58. People crave encouragement, and sometimes the greatest encouragement is the writing of words that endure. Perhaps you can pen a note of affirmation and approval to someone today.

David Jeremiah

#59. Your approval before God is woven into the life and sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross, not what other men and women think about you.

Matt Chandler