Quotes about Rejection
You're so rebellious as it is." "I am not!" Franny said with her customary defiance
— Alice Hoffman
As long as she lives she will never figure out why it is that some boys refuse to see that somebody loves them.
— Alice Hoffman
We love them. We try every way we can to show that love. But they reject us. They never even listen to how we've suffered. And if they listen they say stupid things. Why don't you speak our language? they ask. Why can't you remember the old ways? Why aren't you happy in America, if everyone there drives motorcars?
— Alice Walker
Did people leave you, did their spirits simply take off, because you wouldn't read a book that turned them on? He now knew the answer was yes.
— Alice Walker
Often, out of our greatest rejection comes our greatest direction.
— Joel Osteen
You are not Christ's disciple, in the sense of following him, if this is not your way of life: rejected and slain daily!
— Francis Schaeffer
The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner.
— Anonymous
Alas, my Love! ye do me wrongTo cast me off discourteously:And I have loved you so long,Delighting in your company.
— Anonymous
They are of those that rebel against the light.
— Anonymous
A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country.
— Anonymous
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.
— Anonymous
We offered this trust to the heavens and the earth and the mountains, but they refused to carry it and were afraid of it; and man carried it. Surely he is sinful, very foolish.
— Anonymous