Quotes about Denial

Just because someone sees the truth doesn't mean they will accept it or allow that truth to change them.

The only barrier to apprehending the truth is our own unwillingness to see the world as it is instead of how we prefer it to be.

What will you do with your self? Many men and women are still in darkness, trying to figure out the meaning and purpose of life. But no matter what you try to do with your self— whether you deny it, obliterate it, annihilate it, accept it or express it—believe me, it is still alive and kicking.

The great temptation of our lives is to deny our role as chosen people and to allow ourselves to be trapped in the worries of our daily lives. Without the word that keeps lifting us up as God's chosen people, we remain, or become, small people, stuck in the complaints that emerge from our daily struggle to survive.

They who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts.

Those who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts.

I deny their credentials as whales; and have presented them with their passports to quit the Kingdom of Cetology.

The picture of fallen man as given in Scripture is that he knows God but does not want to recognize Him as God.

Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.

If you meet a woman in a burqa, she can't reply to your smile. It's a denial of identity.

Pessimism is a denial of the reality of God and the power man draws from being connected to it.

There has been no single influence which has done more to prevent man from finding God and rebuilding his character, has done more to lower the moral tone of society than the denial of personal guilt. This repudiation of man's personal responsibility for his action is falsely justified in two ways: by assuming that man is only an animal and by giving a sense of guilt the tag "morbid.