In Denial Quotes
Man in his spiritual pride has exchanged God’s method of self-denial for Satan’s plan of self–improvement.
We ask, ‘Why the need for God?’ Maybe the better question is ‘Why the need not to need Him?’ And could it be that that question in fact evidences our need for Him?
There is only one thing which is generally safe from plagiarism -- self-denial.
Denial. It’s the only thing that keeps most of us from losing our sanity.
Denial is the inevitable consequence of those who are presented with disastrous scenarios without being offered an avenue for success. That is why we need to maintain a hopeful attitude.
Ignorance is avoiding that which stands in front of me out of the misplaced hope that it will put what I’m ignoring behind me. Instead, it’s most certain to drop it on top of me.
It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge.
Complexes can be the feelings of guilt, a victim complex, and fear of failure, criticism, poverty, and loneliness, loss of love, success, insecurity, denial, and low self-esteem
Actively repeating a lie or denial does not make it true.
Arrogance based on relentless denial of faults eventually makes a person weary.
Time is denial's mortal enemy and is always victorious against it.
Ignorance might be bliss, but it also has teeth.
Fear left unrestrained always leaves us running ‘from’ something. Fear harnessed compels us to run ‘to’ something. And fear denied leaves us running in circles.
Nothing will ever be solved if we wallow in the darkness of denial.
We tend to deny our humanity because in accepting the fullness of it, we would need to confess how little we’ve done with it.
We work hard to believe that our actions really don’t affect others all that much because we want the license to act without thinking all that much.
Individuals can only volunteer their will. The collective has no rights if not by the use of force and coercion. Collectivism is not a collection of individuals
Death would be an extremely bad thing like most of us paint it, if being dead were painful.
Death is number one on the list of things that we wish were possible to leave behind when we escaped barbarism.
To deny the battle is unwise. To believe that I can fight it without God is insane. To actually do so is suicidal. No wonder so many of us walk around looking like death warmed over.
There’s not much that I can find in places where there is nothing to find. However, to avoid facing God I find myself spending a lot of time in those very places.
I am likely to fail if I have determined the cost as too high or my intelligence as too low. Yet, if I think about it, the real failure rests in believing either of these to be true.
It’s not that I can’t remember. It’s that I prefer not to remember, which means that I prefer not to remember what not remembering did to me the last time I did it.
It’s a wonder of human behavior: we build our own handcuffs that trap and harm us. We create the myth, and we honor it. We tell the lie, and we believe it.
You're the optimist all the way through, pretending to be a pessimist on the inside, because you can act like it hurts less if you say you knew all along it was going to go down like that.
It takes courage to let go of the past and all the mechanisms you have put in place, in order to ease your pain, regret and fear through avoiding responsibility for it.
They are married, after all, in every way that matters. The difficulty is that they appear not to have noticed. And one is somewhat wary, given the history, of bringing that fact to their attention.
Sensitive people either love deeply or they regret deeply. There really is no middle ground because they live in passionate extremes.
If one abuses or neglects internal powers, external forces will act accordingly.
Denial is fear gone delusional. Acceptance is fear given to God. Engaging is fear overruled by God. Victory is fear banished by God.
