Never think that God's delays are God's denials. True prayer always receives what it asks, or something better. — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
“I've been told there are five stages of grief, and if that's true, then he's stuck in stage one; denial.” — Jenny Downham Copy Share Image
Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock. — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
Denial is pushing something out of your awareness. Anything you hide in the basement has a way of burrowing under the house… — Howard Sasportas Copy Share Image
The obvious danger is that in some situations [denial] can lead to procrastination in seeking help or to avoidance of action that… — Shlomo Breznitz Copy Share Image
Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
I am in denial about sport. I refuse to accept that I watch it. I am not the kind of man who… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
I'm very much in denial that I can't dance. I really go for it, which is almost more embarrassing. — Miranda Hart Copy Share Image
This rule of silence is upheld when the culture refuses everyone easy access even to the word “patriarchy.” Most children do not… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
To deny that human beings are filled with anti-social passions betrays a denial of reality and a lack of self-awareness. One has… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
When you are surrounded by something so big that requires you to change everything about the way you think and see the… — Paul Gilding Copy Share Image
“What man ever openly apologizes for slander? It is not so much a feeling of slander as it is that of a… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to… — Roger Nash Baldwin Copy Share Image
Materialism means simply the denial that the moral order is eternal, and the cutting off of ultimate hopes; spiritualism means theaffirmation of… — William James Copy Share Image
We increasingly live in societies based on the vocabulary of 'choice' and a denial of reality - a denial of massive inequality,… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“There’s no denying where denial leads if we ignore data. The good news, dare I say the great news, is this: Data… — Jon Acuff Copy Share Image
“When a memory fails to appear, it seems as though the time when it was created did not really exist, and maybe… — Cees Nooteboom Copy Share Image
“In her book claiming that allegations of ritualistic abuse are mostly confabulations, La Fontaine’s (1998) comparison of social workers to ‘nazis’ shows… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
Naturally, men are prone to spin themselves a web of opinions out of their own brain, and to have a religion that… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
He said that people who loved [animals] to excess were capable of the worst cruelties toward human beings. He said that dogs… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“Actually, nothing hurts like hearing the word slut, unless it is hearing the word rape dropped about carelessly. Again, a word I… — Christine Stockton Copy Share Image
The increasing tendency towards seeing people in terms of one dominant ‘identity’ (‘this is your duty as an American’, ‘you must commit… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
The force of what was called Panther rhetoric or word mongering resided not in elegant discourse but in strength of affirmation (or… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Atheist’s denial of God’s existence needs just as much substantiation as does the theist’s claim; the atheist must give plausible reasons for… — Paul Copan Copy Share Image
“Denial is the worst form of self-indulgence. A warrior sees his faults as being his passage to power.” — Théun Mares Copy Share Image
If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much use for it. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
the very notion of blindness about color constitutes an ideological confusion at best, and denial at its very worst. — Patricia J. Williams Copy Share Image
“That’s pretty much how we get through our own lives, watching television. Smoking crap. Self-medicating. Redirecting our own attention. Jacking off. Denial.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
When will I learn to stop trusting guys like you. To stop loving guys like you. To stop believing in guy like… — Frida Flores Copy Share Image
I promise you running away, moving away, will NOT heal what hurts! It just puts a band-aid on a gaping wound. Denial… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The primary dues a writer or any artist pays is to remain sentient, and to forfeit the illusionary luxury of such anesthetics… — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
For voters whose work schedule does not allow them to wait in line to vote, the denial of vote by mail and… — Alex Padilla Copy Share Image
The Daily Beast reports today that if Steve Bannon is denied a security clearance, the President could simply overrule that denial and… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
To have your attention in the Now is not a denial of what is needed in your life. It is recognition of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“But you know, when you're in love, there's this denial button you just switch on, and everything is good for a while.” — Piper Shelly Copy Share Image
Many grievers experience intense yearning or longing after a death - more than they experience, say, denial. — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I could almost see common sense and denial fighting away at each other within her. In the end, denial won, as it… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
I'm not against shock and horror. In fact, I really belive in facing the dark realities of our time as the first… — Chris Jordan Copy Share Image