Affirms Quotes

74 Affirms quotes by 63 unique authors

What were the relations between the Jews and the secret societies? That is not easy to elucidate, for we lack reliable evidence. Obviously they did… — Bernard Lazare
Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality. — Plato
God, Most High, is the very one who Himself affirms His unity by the tongue of whatever of His creatures He wishes. If He Himself… — Mansur Al-Hallaj
It is essential that our love be liberating, not possessive. We must at all times give those we love the freedom to be themselves. Love… — John Powell
He who affirms that Christianity makes men miserable, is himself an utter stranger to it. — Charles Spurgeon
Grace releases and affirms. It doesn't smother. Grace values the dignity of individuals. It doesn't destroy. Grace supports and encourages. It isn't jealous or suspicious. — Charles R. Swindoll
The whole earth, then, belongs to Jesus. It belongs to him by right of creation, by right of redemption and by right of future inheritance… — Christopher J. H. Wright
POSITIVISM- A philosophy that denies our knowledge of the Real and affirms our ignorance of the Apparent. Its longest exponent is Comte, its broadest Mill… — Ambrose Bierce
It is God in you that responds to God without, or affirms his own words trembling on the lips of another. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Any time I see someone succeed I am happy, for it affirms my belief that I live in a world where success is possible. — Bonnie Gillespie
The word sharing affirms that we have something extraordinarily valuable and desire to give it to others for their benefit and blessing. — Dallin H. Oaks
Truth is that which affirms propositionally the nature of reality as it is. — Ravi Zacharias
I am grateful to those Members of Congress who worked so diligently to guide the Equal Pay Act through. It is a first step. It… — John F. Kennedy
The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality. — Raymond Queneau
If marriage really is a sacred institution, then why is the government controlling it, especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state? — Tony Campolo
Faith affirms many things, respecting which the senses are silent, but nothing that they deny. It is superior, but never opposed to their testimony — Blaise Pascal
Social science affirms that a woman's place in society marks the level of civilization. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
This is not remarkable, for, as we know, reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event… — Robert Penn Warren
I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke. — Yves Saint Laurent
Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it. — Andrea Dworkin
On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Lucian Freud's career affirms that the only thing an artist can do is remain true to whatever vision, (lack of) talent, or ideas that happened… — Jerry Saltz
The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit. — Simone Weil
I love the idea of bringing order out of disorder which is what the mystery is about. I like the way in which it affirms… — P.D. James
The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without… — Friedrich Nietzsche

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