Quotes about Rejection

Nor do I," Anu said quietly. "But there is never so much love in our lives that we can afford to reject it when it is offered.

I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act.

So I have a horror of success.

I wonder if we have a lot of sons running around saying, "I want a Dad." But you won't abide in anyone.

Throughout evolution, ostracism was death indeed.

I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.

God's arms are always extended; we are the ones who turn away.

Atonement is fundamental to the Torah, but much of the modern world has either forgotten its importance or deliberately rejected it.

If we live for people's approval, we will die by their rejection

Some of us have incredible potential, but we don't want to try anything bold because we don't want to fail. The easy choice: live in the relative safety of mediocrity because we think that's better than rejection.

The only thing that will help us move past the giant of rejection is to immerse ourselves in the acceptance of Christ.

For us, this is a good reminder that God works in his own way. It is not by the strength of men that battles are won. It is by the work of God. That's why in the story of David and Goliath we've uncovered the huge revelation that we are not David. It's not about us gathering our slings and stones and going down to kill the giant of rejection ourselves. No, God is going to do that for us. He chooses the weak things to confound the strong, the simple things to upend the wise.