Quotes about Rejection

Isa. xliii. 22, "Thou hast not called upon me, thou hast been weary of me.

I was just kind of sour with the sport. I didn't want anything to do with it. I went into a period of excessive partying and doing anything that wasn't figure skating, really. I went and built a house with my brother. I shut the whole world out and shut everything down.

Every man who loses everlasting life rejects it himself. God denies it not to him-he will not come that he may have life.

Woe unto them who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!… Therefore, as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust, because they have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

But this isn't about sports competition. It's about the rejection of what God determines for a person at conception. Put another way, these are creatures saying to the Creator that their impossible and diabolical choices are valid and that God's sovereignty is not. Such a person implies that God made a mistake, that they are angry with Him for that mistake, and that they will

Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.

Truth and the hatred of truth come into our world together. As soon as truth appears, it is regarded as an enemy.

Why don't you cry again, you little wretch? -Because I'll never cry for you again.

for not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love.

My flesh and blood...when it rises against me, is not my flesh and blood. I discard it.

No man that lives can satisfy everybody. The recipe for perfect peace is, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

Because the myth that America is a Christian nation has led many to associate America with Christ, many now hear the good news of Jesus only as American news, capitalistic news, imperialistic news, exploitive news, antigay news, or Republican news. And whether justified or not, many people want nothing to do with any of it.