Quotes about Rejection

To come to faith on the basis of experience alone is unwise, though not so foolish as to reject faith altogether because of lack of experience ... the quality of a Christian's experience depends on the quality of his faith, just as the quality of his faith depends in turn on the quality of his understanding of God's truth.

His discipline, therefore, is never the result of his rejection, but the fruit of his acceptance.

DECEMBER 25 Jesus was despised and rejected in the here and now so that you would have the Father's love and acceptance forever.

The thought that any fallen human being would be able to perform his or her way into acceptance with God has to be the most insane of all delusions.

The people that Love You LOVE YOU---and the people that Don't Never Will.

As Luke's story unfolds, Jesus continues to undermine expectations involving political power and Jewish identity. In his first public appearance, in a synagogue service, he claims to be the messiah, which creates quite a buzz of support—until he tells them that he will bless Gentiles and be rejected by his own kinsmen. The crowd responds by trying to throw Jesus off a cliff. Israel's messiah isn't supposed to say things like this.

but He had no regard for Cain and his offering. So Cain became very angry, and his countenance fell.

“Why have you come to me?” Isaac asked them. “You hated me and sent me away.”

“Do you intend to reign over us?” his brothers asked. “Will you actually rule us?” So they hated him even more because of his dream and his statements.

May I never enter their council; may I never join their assembly. For they kill men in their anger, and hamstring oxen on a whim.

“Depart from me!” Pharaoh said to Moses. “Make sure you never see my face again, for on the day you see my face, you will die.”

Even the land has become defiled, so I am punishing it for its sin, and the land will vomit out its inhabitants.