Denial Quotes

636 Denial quotes by 510 unique authors

DELUSION, n. The father of a most respectable family, comprising Enthusiasm, Affection, Self-denial, Faith, Hope, Charity and many other goodly sons and daughters. — Ambrose Bierce
He that is impatient, and cannot wait on God for a mercy, will not easily submit to Him in a denial. — William Gurnall
The British government had not engaged in any serious actual oppression of the colonies before 1774, but it had claimed powers not granted by the… — Edmund Morgan
An optimist is neither naive, nor blind to the facts, nor in denial of grim reality. An optimist believes in the optimal usage of all… — Vera Nazarian
The strongest person is not the one who is able to do something, but the one who is able not to do what he has… — Witness Lee
Good therapy, gently but firmly, moves people out of denial and compartmentalization. It helps clients to develop richer inner lives and greater self-knowledge. It teaches… — Mary Pipher
To have privilege in one or more areas does not mean you are wholly privileged. Surrendering to the acceptance of privilege is difficult, but it… — Roxane Gay
Sit peacefully in a church and think of church history: witchburning perhaps, or child abuse, genocide, the amassing of disgusting wealth, the repression of women,… — Kaz Cooke
If you try to assert wisdom before people have themselves walked it, be prepared for much resistance, denial, push-back, and verbal debate. — Richard Rohr
The creativity of people on the schizophrenic end of the human continuum is a creativity that springs from the inability to accept the standardized cultural… — Ernest Becker
Christian marriage is marked by discipline and self-denial...C hristianity does not therefore depreciate marriage, it sanctifies it. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
A little bit of pain is good for you. I feel alive. Everybody needs struggle. Once you overcome an obstacle, you springboard into the future.… — Pamela Anderson
Our hope is we move beyond denial and into debate... If we cleaned up the air, would it really be bad for us? — Bob Inglis
The central objective in decolonising the African mind is to overthrow the authority which alien traditions exercise over the African. This demands the dismantling of… — Chinweizu Ibekwe
The easiest rationalization for the refusal to seek the truth is the denial that truth exists. — Sidney Hook
Once you're labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination - employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial of educational opportunity,… — Michelle Alexander
First Corinthians so clearly says that whether we eat or drink, do it all to the glory of God. It's not just self. Jesus said… — Steve Camp
When you are surrounded by something so big that requires you to change everything about the way you think and see the world, then denial… — Paul Gilding
Congress remains in total denial as our liberties are rapidly fading before our eyes. The process is propelled by unwarranted fear and ignorance as to… — Ron Paul
Art is an action against death. It is a denial of death. — Jacques Lipchitz

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