Denial Quotes - Page 17

• Melanctha Herbert was always losing what she had in all the things she saw. Melanctha was always being left when she was not leaving others. Melanctha Herbert always loved too hard and much too often. She was always full with mystery and subtle movements and denials and vague distrusts and complicated disillusions. Then Melanctha would be sudden and impulsive and unbounded in some faith, and then she would suffer and be strong in her repression. Melanctha Herbert was always seeking rest and quiet and always she could only find new ways to be in trouble.

  Gertrude Stein

  Strong, Leaving, Suffering

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• Take away from love the fullness of self surrender, the completeness of personal commitment, and what remains will be a total denial and negation of it.

  Pope John Paul II

  Commitment, Self, Surrender

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• To the right person, the person who is truly born to it, duty is a form of love, through which all is possible. Duty is not always a denial of things, but an expansion of them to others. Duty is not always a chore, but is best carried out with love.

  Terry Goodkind

  Expansion, Form, Born

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Temple Of The Winds”, p.513, Head of Zeus

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• If any man would come after me, let him deny himself." The disciple must say to himself the same words Peter said of Christ when he denied him: "I know not this man." Self-denial is never just a series of isolated acts of mortification or asceticism. It is not suicide, for there is an element of self-will even in that. To deny oneself is to be aware only of Christ and no more of self, to see only him who goes before and no more the road which is too hard for us. Once more, all that self denial can say is: "He leads the way, keep close to him.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Suicide, Men, Self

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• The increasing tendency towards seeing people in terms of one dominant ‘identity’ (‘this is your duty as an American’, ‘you must commit these acts as a Muslim’, or ‘as a Chinese you should give priority to this national engagement’) is not only an imposition of an external and arbitrary priority, but also the denial of an important liberty of a person who can decide on their respective loyalties to different groups (to all of which he or she belongs).

  Amartya Sen

  Loyalty, Giving, People

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• The feeling of righteousness is the core mood alteration among religious addicts. Religious addiction is a massive problem in our society. It may be the most pernicious of all addictions because it’s so hard for a person to break his delusion and denial. How can anything be wrong with loving God and giving your life for good works and service to mankind?

  John Bradshaw

  Religious, Loving Life, Giving

  John Bradshaw (2010). “Healing the Shame that Binds You”, p.138, Health Communications, Inc.

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• Whether we like it or not, each of us is constrained by limits on what we can do and feel. To ignore these limits leads to denial and eventually to failure. To achieve excellence, we must first understand the reality of the everyday, with all its demands

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Reality, Everyday, Excellence

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1997). “Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life”, p.5, Basic Books

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• But sometimes living in denial was the only way to keep a man from going on a killing spree.

  Eric Jerome Dickey

  Men, Way, Sometimes

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• Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future,and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Encouragement

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• What’s looming in the shadows of our ignorance and denial is a critique of civilization itself.

  Lierre Keith

  Ignorance, Civilization, Shadow

  Lierre Keith (2009). “The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability”, p.3, PM Press

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• Awareness is bad for the meat business. Conscience is bad for the meat business. Sensitivity to life is bad for the meat business. DENIAL, however, the meat business finds indispensable.

  John Robbins

  Vegetarianism, Meat, Animal Rights

  John Robbins (2011). “Diet for a New America: How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health, Happiness, and the Future of Life on Earth”, p.92, H J Kramer

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• The science [of global warming] is beyond dispute... Delay is no longer an option. Denial is no longer an acceptable response

  Barack Obama

  Delay, Global Warming, Climate Change

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• The history of medicine proves that in so far as man seeks to know himself and face his whole nature, he has become free from bewildered fear, despondent shame, or arrant hypocrisy. As long as sex is dealt with in the current confusion of ignorance and sophistication, denial and indulgence, suppression and stimulation, punishment and exploitation, secrecy and display, it will be associated with a duplicity and indecency that lead neither to intellectual honesty nor human dignity.

  Alfred Kinsey

  Sex, Honesty, Ignorance

  "Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male". Book by Alfred Kinsey, 1948.

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• Our very business is to teach the great lesson of self-denial and humility to our people, and how unfit is it then that we should be proud ourselves!

  Richard Baxter

  Humility, Self, People

  Richard Baxter (1830). “The practical works of ... Richard Baxter, with a life of the author and a critical examination of his writings by W. Orme”, p.161

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• Naturally, men are prone to spin themselves a web of opinions out of their own brain, and to have a religion that may be called their own. They are far readier to make themselves a faith, than to receive that which God hath formed to their hands; are far readier to receive a doctrine that tends to their carnal commodity, or honor, or delight, than one that tends to self-denial.

  Richard Baxter

  Men, Self, Hands

  Richard Baxter, William Orme (1830). “The Practical Works of Richard Baxter: with a Life of the Author and a Critical Examination of His Writings by William Orme”, p.128

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• I take the love of God and self-denial to be the sum of all saving grace and religion.

  Richard Baxter

  Self, Grace, Saving

  Richard Baxter (1830). “The practical works of ... Richard Baxter, with a life of the author and a critical examination of his writings by W. Orme”, p.3

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• Faith is the leading grace in all our spiritual warfare and conflict; but all along while we live, it hath faithful company that adheres to it, and helps it. Love works, and hope works, and all other graces, — self-denial, readiness to the cross, — they all work and help faith. But when we come to die, faith is left alone. Now, try what faith will do.

  John Owen

  Leadership, Spiritual, Self

  "The Works of John Owen".

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• A lot of people go straight from denial to despair without pausing in the middle and doing something about it.

  Al Gore

  People, Despair, Pausing

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• Anyone who would tackle our current addiction to fossil fuels is going to have to maneuver around denial.

  William H. Calvin

  Addiction, Fuel, Fossils

  William H. Calvin (2010). “Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change”, p.31, William H. Calvin

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• Little self-denials, little honesties, little passing words of sympathy, little nameless acts of kindness, little silent victories over favorite temptations-these are the silent threads of gold which, when woven together, gleam out so brightly in the pattern of life that God approves.

  Frederic Farrar

  Honesty, Kindness, Self

  Frederic William Farrar (1877). “"In the Days of Thy Youth.": Sermons on Practical Subjects, Preached at Marlborough College, from 1871-1876”, p.19

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• You and I are but specks of that rhythmic urge which is Brahma, which is Allah, which is God.

  Ruth St. Denis

  Dance, Hinduism, Brahma

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• Heroism is latent in every human soul - However humble or unknown, they (the veterans) have renounced what are accounted pleasures and cheerfully undertaken all the self-denials - privations, toils, dangers, sufferings, sicknesses, mutilations, life-long hurts and losses, death itself - for some great good, dimly seen but dearly held.

  Joshua Chamberlain

  Memorial Day, Courage, Hurt

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• I know of no crime that has not been defended by the church, in one form or other. The church is not a pioneer; it accepts a new truth, last of all, and only when denial has become useless.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Religion, Church, Pioneers

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2699, Library of Alexandria

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• We are social beings who make communities with an urgency, and it is a stern charge to make us take refuge in the lonely world of oneself. ...Racism attempts to occlude our cosmopolitanism (of the songs in and out of our bones), and it often appropriates our mild forms of xenophobia into its own virulent project. Difference among peoples is something that we negotiate in our everyday interactions, asking questions and being better informed of our mutual realities. To transform difference into the body is an act of bad faith, a denial of our shared nakedness.

  Vijay Prashad

  Song, Lonely, Xenophobia

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• If your senses are numbed with delusion and denial, you will stop looking for these true strengths and wind up living a second-rate version of someone's life rather than a worldclass version of your own

  Donald O. Clifton

  Wind, Inner Strength, True Strength

  Marcus Buckingham, Donald O. Clifton (2001). “Now, Discover Your Strengths”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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