Quotes about Refusal

The biggest obstacle to making Christ magnificent is the refusal to make yourself small.

Ah! indeed he must not be mounted. It does not suit his ideas to be a saddle-horse. Every one has his ambition. 'Draw? Yes. Carry? No.' We must suppose that is what he said to himself.

If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, the man still must pay an amount comparable to the bridal price of a virgin.

Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

When they asked him to stay for a while longer, he declined.

The first step in identifying "heresy" is to refuse all identifications with the subjective intuitions and experience of the "heretic," and to see his words only in an impersonal realm in which there is no dialogue - in which dialogue is denied a priori .

Then the LORD said to Moses, “How long will you refuse to keep My commandments and instructions?

"Friend deceives friend, and no-one speaks the truth. They have taught their tongues to lie; they weary themselves with sinning. You live in the midst of deception; in their deceit they refuse to acknowledge me."

By the very act of refusing to succumb to the enormous pressure of Western culture around us, we, too, serve as a sign of a free people. We have been called out of a world trying to prove its worth and value by what it does or possesses. We are deeply loved by God for who we are, not for what we do.

Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.

they offered Him wine to drink, mixed with gall; but after tasting it, He refused to drink it.