Quotes about Denial

If, in his pride, he considers God as a challenge, he will deny Him; and if God becomes man and therefore makes Himself vulnerable, he will crucify Him.

They excuse themselves, saying they are bored because they are not loved: No! They are bored because they do not love; because they have denied love.

One will never find a professor who denies freedom of the will who does not also have something in his life for which he wishes to shake off responsibility.

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

I didn't want to identify the body, or see it at all. If you don't see the body, it's easier to believe nobody's dead.

We lived, as usual, by ignoring. Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.

We're ankle deep in blood, and all because we ate the birds, we ate them a long time ago, when we still had the power to say no.

But what if the great secret insider-trading truth is that you don't ever get over the biggest losses in your life? Is that good news, bad news, or both? . . . . The pain does grow less acute, but the insidious palace lie that we will get over crushing losses means that our emotional GPS can never find true north, as it is based on maps that no longer mention the most important places we have been to. Pretending that things are nicely boxed up and put away robs us of great riches.

Most of our lives in public are spent papering over, rationalizing, and otherwise denying our fear. We go to war because we're afraid, and we often go to spiritual events for the very same reason.

You can't fight a battle you don't think exists.

Because one stage of depravity is lower than another, this does not warrant the denial that the first stage is degraded. The development of wickedness is one thing; the presence of any measure of holiness or virtue is another. The absence of certain forms of sins does not imply any innate purity. It might as well be affirmed that a recent corpse, which is less loathsome, is therefore less dead than one which is far gone in decay and putrefaction.