Quotes about Rejection

Why resist the overtures of mercy? Why say, "Let me alone," until God shall be compelled to give you your desire, since you will have it so?

Though the people of Gergesa had not received Jesus, He did not leave them to the darkness they had chosen. When they bade Him depart from them, they had not heard His words. They were ignorant of that which they were rejecting. Therefore He again sent the light to them, and by those to whom they would not refuse to listen.

He wept over Jerusalem, the city He loved, which refused to receive Him, the way, the truth, and the life. They had rejected Him, the Saviour, but He regarded them with pitying tenderness.

How many times since then have I rejected Love because it did not present itself the way I expected, in a form acceptable to me?

A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows. Samuel Clemens Mark Twain, American author and humorist

People get tired of you. So they decided to throw me out. And so help me God, as the numbers were coming in, I said to myself, 'I'm free at last.'

Ask yourself: if that is what Jesus is all about - that is, getting us to love one another - then why did everyone reject him?

A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.

It is better to be alone than unwelcome. - Eve

All right, then, I'll go to hell"—and tore it up.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

If they cannot deny it, they will probably ignore it.