Quotes about Rejection

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis but rather the feeling of being unwanted, uncared for and deserted by everybody.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

Loneliness and the feeling of being uncared for and unwanted are the greatest poverty.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the worst poverty of all.

The problem is that humans were made for a particular vocation, which they have rejected; that this rejection involves a turning away from the living God to worship idols; that this results in giving to the idols—"forces" within the creation—a power over humans and the world that was rightfully that of genuine humans; and that this leads to a slavery, which is ultimately the rule of death itself, the corruption and destruction of the good world made by the Creator.

The mission of the church must therefore include, at a structural level, the recognition that our present space, time, and matter are all subject not to rejection but to redemption.

As Paul says in Romans, if you reject the biblical God, you will deify something within the created order.

According to Romans 1, those who reject the Creator will create an idol.

I've not learned the acceptable way of saying you fascinate me...I've not even learned how to say I like you without frightening people away-

When cultures reject God, they cut themselves off from the ultimate ground of reality

In a post-Christian era many of our friends, neighbors, and colleague will reject God for a score of reasons, but we must live and speak that they reject God for God's sake and not because of what we have said or done that has framed God wrongly.