Quotes about Denial

Cheap grace therefore amounts to a denial of the living Word of God, in fact, a denial of the Incarnation of the Word of God.

Who is this Judas? Who is the betrayer? Faced with this question, are we capable of more than asking with the disciples: "Surely not I, Lord?

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.

He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. The thing was not to recognize it. The last country to realize they were cooked would win the war.

No matter how long it takes or how desperately a person battles or denies, the truth always — always — makes itself known.

Good excuses rarely collect dust. We use them, and use them, and use them.

You couldn't have it if you DID want it.

Never relax, for you will not attain to the possession of true spiritual delights if first you do not learn to deny your every desire.

The true atheist is the one who denies God's image in the "least of these.

Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.

Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.

The denial of emotion is a terrible thing; what takes time is learning that the positive path is the education of emotion, not it's uncritical indulgence, which actually locks us far more firmly in our mutual isolation. Likewise, the denial of rights is a terrible thing; and what takes time to learn is that the opposite of oppression is not a wilderness of litigation and reparation but the nurture of concrete, shared respect.