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32 Positive Confirmation Quotes To Inspire A New Generation Of Christians
For many girls and boys in Christian denominations, confirmation is a sacred time of faithful profession that is often celebrated among friends, family, and mentors. If you know or are part of a confirmation candidate's faith journey, send them one of these positive confirmation quotes as a form of well wishes in their recommitment to the Lord.
But what is confirmation, you may ask? Confirmation, or Chrismation as it is sometimes known, is one of seven sacraments alongside Baptism, First Communion, and others. It is a formal affirmation of one's faith and commitment to the Lord, often completed as an early teen. For some Christian denominations, such as Catholics, kids undergoing the process of confirmation must take religious education classes and select a sponsor or mentor from the church to act as a guide in their faith journey. Then, in front of the congregation, confirmation candidates renew their baptismal promise and are blessed with a consecrated oil to seal themselves with the gift of the Holy Spirit.
To honor the newly committed Christian in your life, write one of these loving confirmation quotes and positive sayings in a card alongside a confirmation gift. These faith quotes also make for great Instagram captions to celebrate the big sacramental day.
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"Life with Christ is a wonderful adventure." — St. John Paul II
"Then Jesus said to him, 'Get up and go. Your faith has healed you.'" — Luke 17:19
"Confirmation is God's work." — Pope Francis
"But he said, 'Happy rather are those who hear God's word, and put it into practice.'" — Luke 11:28
"We love because God first loved us." — 1 John 4:19
"Commit your way to the Lord! Trust him! He will act." — Psalm 37:5
"Happy are those who trust in the Lord, who rely on the Lord." — Jeremiah 17:7
"Be who God meant you to be, and you will set the world on fire!" — St. Catherine of Siena
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"When we receive him in our hearts, Christ makes himself present and takes shape in our lives." — Pope Francis
"I wish not merely to be called Christian, but also to be Christian." — St. Ignatius of Antioch
"Prayer is the best armor we have, it is the key which opens the heart of God." — St. Padre Pio
"Confirmation, like every sacrament, is not the work of men but of God, who cares for our lives in such a manner as to mold us in the image of his Son, to make us capable of loving like him." — Pope Francis
"While the world changes, the cross stands firm." — St. Bruno
"Faith is to believe what you do not see. The reward of faith is to see what you believe." — St. Augustine
"He who possesses God lacks nothing: God alone suffices." — St. Teresa of Ávila
"Dear brothers and sisters, let us remember that we have received confirmation! All of us! Let us remember it, first, in order to thank the Lord for this gift, and then to ask him to help us to live as true Christians, to walk always with joy in the Holy Spirit who has been given to us." — Pope Francis
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"So now, if you faithfully obey me and stay true to my covenant, you will be my most precious possession out of all the peoples since the whole earth belongs to me." — Exodus 19:5
"He replied, 'You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your being, and with all your mind.'" — Matthew 22:37
"I give thanks to you that I was marvelously set apart. Your works are wonderful — I know that very well." — Psalm 139:14
"So now, revere the Lord. Serve him honestly and faithfully. Put aside the gods that your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates and in Egypt, and serve the Lord." — Joshua 24:14
"Jesus said to him, 'If you can do anything? All things are possible for the one who has faith.'" — Mark 9:23
"To the holy and faithful brothers and sisters in Christ in Colossae. Grace and peace to you from God our Father." — Colossians 1:2
"Someone might claim, 'You have faith, and I have action.' But how can I see your faith apart from your actions? Instead, I'll show you my faith by putting it into practice in faithful action." — James 2:18
"Since childhood, you have known the holy scriptures that help you to be wise in a way that leads to salvation through faith that is in Christ Jesus." — 2 Timothy 3:15
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"Although you've never seen him, you love him. Even though you don't see him now, you trust him, and so rejoice with a glorious joy that is too much for words." — 1 Peter: 1:8
"By faith, we understand that the universe has been created by a word from God so that the visible came into existence from the invisible." — Hebrews 11:3
"I ask you to consider that our Lord Jesus Christ is your true head and that you are a member of his body. He belongs to you as the head belongs to the body. All that is his is yours: breath, heart, body, soul, and all his faculties. All of these you must use as if they belonged to you, so that in serving him, you may give him praise, love, and glory." — St. John Eudes
"Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord is a rock for all ages." — Isaiah 26:4
"We can study the whole history of salvation, we can study the whole of theology, but without the Spirit, we cannot understand. It is the Spirit that makes us realize the truth or — in the words of our Lord — it is the Spirit that makes us know the voice of Jesus." — Pope Francis
"Some people trust in chariots, others in horses; but we praise the Lord's name." — Psalm 20:7
"Taste and see how good the Lord is! The one who takes refuge in him is truly happy!" — Psalm 34:8
"Hold your eyes on God and leave the doing to Him. That is all the doing you have to worry about." — St. Jane Frances de Chantal
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A Life In Quotes: Alice Munro
Alice Munro, the 2013 Nobel laureate considered one of the greatest short story writers in the English language, has died at the age of 92 at her care home in Ontario, after suffering dementia for more than a decade. Born and raised in south-western Ontario, the "Canadian Chekhov" captured the desire and darkness of ordinary life in rural Canada, particularly for women – subjects long out of focus for the mainstream, finally achieving recognition later in life.
Alice Munro, Nobel winner and titan of the short story, dies aged 92
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A housewife and mother of four children, one of whom died in infancy, Munro would sneak in writing around naps and housework, publishing her first collection of short stories, Dance of the Happy Shades, in 1968, at age 37. Lives of Girls and Women, her only novel – really a collection of interlinked stories, as she called it – followed in 1971. A writer of what Jonathan Franzen called "pathological empathy", Munro continued to write short story collections centered on the sublime and mundane in small-town Canada throughout her life, concluding with 2012's Dear Life. Here are some of her most memorable quotes:
On people:People's lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, unfathomable – deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum. It did not occur to me then that one day I would be so greedy for Jubilee … What I wanted was every last thing, every layer of speech and thought, stroke of light on bark or walls, every smell, pothole, pain, crack, delusion, held still and held together – radiant, everlasting.– Lives of Girls and Women, 1971
In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.– Too Much Happiness, 2009
We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do – we do it all the time.– Dear Life, 2012
The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.– Runaway, 2004
On south-western Ontario, her home for most of her life:I am intoxicated by this landscape, by the almost flat fields, the swamps, the hardwood bush, by the continental climate with its extravagant winters. I am at home with the brick houses, the falling-down barns, the occasional farms that have swimming pools and airplanes, the trailer parks, burdensome old churches, Walmart, and Canadian Tire. I speak the language.– introduction to Selected Stories, 1996
To live in a place like Wingham you have a very narrow opportunity to get out. If you wait until you are 30 you become too timid and know too little about the world and it never happens. So I got out. I got married and it was a very lucky thing.– to the Guardian, 2013
Everybody in the community is on stage for all the other people. There's a constant awareness of people watching and listening. And – and this may be particularly Canadian – the less you reveal, the more highly thought of you are.– to the New York Times, 1986
On narratives of the self:Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories – and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories. We can hardly manage our lives without a powerful ongoing narrative. And underneath all these edited, inspired, self-serving stories there is, we suppose, some big bulging awful mysterious entity called THE TRUTH, which our fictional stories are supposed to be poking at and grabbing pieces of. What would be more interesting as a life's occupation? One of the ways we do this, I think, is by trying to look at what memory does (different tricks at different stages of our lives) and at the way people's different memories deal with the same (shared) experience. The more disconcerting the differences are, the more the writer in me feels an odd exhilaration.– to Knopf Doubleday, 2010
Self-deception seems almost like something that's a big mistake, that we should learn not to do. But I'm not sure if we can. Everybody's doing their own novel of their own lives. The novel changes – at first we have a romance, a very satisfying novel that has a rather simple technique, and then we grow out of that and we end up with a very discontinuous, discordant, very contemporary kind of novel. I think that what happens to a lot of us in middle age is that we can't really hang on to our fiction any more.– to the New York Times, 1986
Photograph: Andrew Testa/Shutterstock On becoming a writer:Books seem to me to be magic, and I wanted to be part of the magic … And after a while it wasn't enough, and I started making up a very imitative type of story, set in Canada – which was kind of odd, but it didn't bother me. It was a kind of recompense for not being able to get right into the world of the book. Books were so important to me.– to the Guardian, 2003
On not writing novels:I never intended to be a short-story writer, I started writing them because I didn't have time to write anything else – I had three children. And then I got used to writing stories, so I saw my material that way, and now I don't think I'll ever write a novel.– to the New York Times, 1986
I'm sad that I haven't written a lot of things, but I'm incredibly happy that I've written as much as I have. Because there was a point when I was younger where there was a very good chance that I wouldn't write anything – I was just too frightened.– to the Guardian, 2013
On a bout of depression in her late 20s:I would write part of a sentence and then would have to stop. I had simply lost hope, lost faith in myself. Maybe it was just something I had to go through. I guess it was because I still wanted to do something great – great the way men do.– to the Guardian, 2013
On her storytelling:I want to tell a story, in the old-fashioned way – what happens to somebody – but I want that 'what happens' to be delivered with quite a bit of interruption, turnarounds, and strangeness. I want the reader to feel something that is astonishing – not the 'what happens' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.– to the New York Times, 1986
Dear Annie: Walt Whitman Poem Remembers The Fallen On Memorial Day
Dear Readers: Memorial Day is a federal holiday in the United States for honoring and mourning the U.S. Military personnel who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces.
"Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night" by Walt Whitman
"Vigil strange I kept on the field one night; / When you my son and my comrade dropt at my side that day, / One look I but gave which your dear eyes return'd with a look I shall never forget, / One touch of your hand to mine O boy, reach'd up as you lay on the ground, / Then onward I sped in the battle, the even-contested battle, / Till late in the night reliev'd to the place at last again I made my way, / Found you in death so cold dear comrade, found your body son of responding kisses, (never again on earth responding,) / Bared your face in the starlight, curious the scene, cool blew the moderate night-wind,
/ Long there and then in vigil I stood, dimly around me the battle-field spreading, / Vigil wondrous and vigil sweet there in the fragrant silent night, / But not a tear fell, not even a long-drawn sigh, long, long I gazed, / Then on the earth partially reclining sat by your side leaning my chin in my hands, / Passing sweet hours, immortal and mystic hours with you de! arest comrade -- not a tear, not a word,
/ Vigil of silence, love and death, vigil for you my son and my soldier, / As onward silently stars aloft, eastward new ones upward stole, / Vigil final for you brave boy, (I could not save you, swift was your death, / I faithfully loved you and cared for you living, I think we shall surely meet again,) / Till at latest lingering of the night, indeed just as the dawn appear'd,
/ My comrade I wrapt in his blanket, envelop'd well his form, / Folded the blanket well, tucking it carefully over head and carefully under feet, / And there and then and bathed by the rising sun, my son in his grave, in his rude-dug grave I deposited, / Ending my vigil strange with that, vigil of night and battle-field dim,
/ Vigil for boy of responding kisses, (never again on earth responding,) / Vigil for comrade swiftly slain, vigil I never forget, how as day brighten'd, / I rose from the chill ground and folded my soldier well in his blanket, / And buried ! him where he fell."
"The Fallen" by Randall W. West, courtesy of Family Friend Poems
"Fragile is a single life the brave so freely give. / Bound for immortality, their souls will surely live. / Death, don't be proud for what you took, they freely gave away. / Their quest for freedom far outweighed the fear that you convey.
/ They joined the ranks of warriors, staying vigil day and night. / They often skipped a meal or two, but they never missed a fight. / God bless the men and women whose fighting days are done.
/ Say a special prayer at night for each and every one. / Rest assured that you will find throughout the coming years / These fallen warriors will return in the hearts of all their peers!
/ If we forget their sacrifice, their deaths will be in vain. / Let's stand beside their loved ones as we sing their last refrain: / You've come upon our heaven's gate / You surely won't have long to wait.
/ The saints will take good care of you, / But there is still a lot to do. / You've joined the ranks of everyone / Who fought so freedom could be won. / Although! your job on earth is done, / Your work in heaven's just begun."
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