Quotes about Rejection

When you believe something to be true, you are "in one mind" about accepting it; when you do not believe something to be true, you are "in one mind" about rejecting it. "To doubt," Os Guinness writes, "is to waver between the two, to believe and disbelieve at once and to be 'in two minds.

The great crisis of this seventh age is that there has been a second fall. The first fall led to God's expulsion of human beings from the Garden of Eden. The second fall was when we returned the favor.

He brings eventual well-being for those who turn to Him, regardless of any hardship He may allow, but eventual calamity for those who reject Him, regardless of how well their immediate life may be going.

What is it that leads such a person to reject the truth of God in the first place? According to Paul, it is a determined opposition to the nature of God Himself, which the apostle describes as human "ungodliness and unrighteousness" (Rom. 1:18).

We fall in love because we long to escape from ourselves with someone as beautiful, intelligent, and witty as we are ugly, stupid, and dull. But what if such a perfect being should one day turn around and decide they will love us back? We can only be somewhat shocked-how can they be as wonderful as we had hoped when they have the bad taste to approve of someone like us?

What if God didn't want me, either? Where does one go if the Almighty rejects you?

but leaving me out was like being kicked out of the family.

Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

But—we must ask today—why then did no one listen to Overbeck?

I am now a man of despair, rejected, abandoned, shut up in this iron cage from which there is no escape.

Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.

Successful people reject rejection.