Affirming Quotes

To me, being cool is just the opposite of living. It`s about not getting too worked up about anything, by being `Nyah, nyah, nyah,` and no big deal. I can`t stand that. It`s such a jaded, clichéd posture to take. I get real enthusiastic about stuff. It`s what I think is life-affirming.

This is life-affirming drama for all the family. Hopefully all ages will watch - mum, dad, granddad, nieces and nephews.

I want my films to be life-affirming, even a film like Trainspotting (1996), which is very dark in many ways. I want people to leave the cinema feeling that something`s been confirmed for them about life.

(Luther could have solved this for us by coming out, but I can`t hate on him too much for his silence. As I`ve said before, artists get moral allowances the rest of us don`t. Their art is their get-out-of-jail-free card.) Luther`s only politics, ... were music and love: He lived for the love of music and believed resolutely in the power of music to heal by affirming love. In that sense, Luther was an ethicist who taught any of us who would listen as much about love as did James Baldwin or Marlon Riggs or Marianne Williamson any other seer for whom Love with a capital L is the ultimate act.

Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.

Jesus was not denying the legitimacy of biblical law. On the contrary, He was affirming biblical law. We love God first; God commands us to keep His word; therefore, we must enforce the law on ourselves.

Coming out to gays is a way of affirming sanity and self-worth.

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.