Quotes about Denial

There is nothing everyone is so afraid of as being told how vastly much he is capable of. You are capable of - do you want to know? - you are capable of living in poverty; you are capable of standing almost any kind of maltreatment, abuse, etc. But you do not wish to know about it, isn't that so? You would be furious with him who told you so, and only call that person your friend who bolsters you in saying: 'No, this I cannot bear, this is beyond my strength, etc.

What is it to be God's elect? It is to be denied in youth the wishes of youth, so as with great pains to get them fulfilled in old age.

Deny your weakness, and you will never realize God's strength in you.

When it comes to success, it will come when it comes. A delay does not mean a denial.

As long as she lives she will never figure out why it is that some boys refuse to see that somebody loves them.

A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception.

None are so blind as those who will not see.

Peter denied His Lord and cried.

But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

We were all created incomplete and will find no rest until we satisfy the deepest hunger and thirst within us. You've tried to satisfy it in your own way. I see that in your eyes, too, as I've seen it in so many others. And yet, though you deny it with your last breath, your soul yearns for God.

Though you deny me, I love you with an everlasting love.

SIN IS THE MONSTER we love to deny. It can stalk us, bite a slice out of our lives, return again and bite again, and even as we bleed and hobble, we prefer to believe nothing has happened. That makes sin the perfect monster, a man-eater that blinds and numbs its victims, convincing them that nothing is wrong and there is no need to flee, and then consumes them at its leisure.