Quotes About Rejection

It seems not improbable that when Turing let slip the fact of his homosexuality "accidentally," especially to a young man like Bayley, he was hoping against hope that the admission might provoke an expression of reciprocal desire. That rarely happened. Later he told Robin Gandy, "Sometimes you're sitting talking to someone and you know that in three quarters of an hour you will either be having a marvellous night or you will be kicked out of the room.

And it relieves me to learn that you are not trying to make friends," the captain said, locking her hammerhead eyes on Ms. Price, "because no one likes you.

Mark a hen's comb with an oddly colored spot, or tie it so it hangs in a peculiar direction, and her former flock mates will attack her mercilessly. Jane Goodall, who was the first scientist to observe chimpanzees up close and personal in the wild, noticed that crippled chimpanzees were rejected and attacked by apes that were previously on friendly terms with them.

the consensus of modern sociology is at presuppositional variance with our Christian view of society. Sociology is one product of a world whose values and structures have been relativized. It is a product of the nineteenth-century rejection of a Christian world-view [sic]. It has assumed an authority of its own using 'society' as its only frame of reference.

This rejection, this cold unthinking hate. How much it pains him, like a slap against a burnt patch of skin, even after all these years. The unkindness of strangers.

There's nothing in the world more silent than the telephone the morning after everybody pans your play. It won't ring from room service your mother won't be calling you. If the phone has not rung by 8 in the morning, you're dead.

The irony is that while God doesn't need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don't really want Him most of the time.

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

Don't misinterpret God's silence as rejection.

I live for now, not for what happens after I die. I'm going to hell, not heaven. The devil has all the good gear. What's God got? The Inspiral Carpets and nuns.

It is far more comforting to think God listened and said no, than to think that nobody's out there.

The next time you feel rejection's sting, remember God's words to Samuel: "It is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected me." (1 Sam. 8:7)

The world hates Christian people if they can see God in them.

It seems to me that we often, almost sulkily, reject the good that God offers us because, at that moment, we expected some other good.

What if God's 'NO,' is really a gift? His way to protect us from what we cannot see, provide something better than we can imagine, or be part of the process of growing us closer to Him.

If you were enough like God, some one wouldn't like you.

If you reject God's commanding word, you will not receive God's gracious word.

One of my acting teachers once said that rejection is God's protection. There's something in it.

To attempt to pay for salvation with church membership, prayers, or good deeds is an insult to Christ, who paid the full price-and is a rejection of the gift of God's grace.

Both this song ['Black Skinhead'], 'I Am a God' and this song were made after Hedi Slimane didn't let me into his first Saint Laurent show.

When God says no, we are sometimes tempted to wonder if He loves us. In reality, it's because He loves us, He sometimes says no.

God says he will never be satisfied with the infidels.

God forgets those who reject proof that they are wrong.

God answers all prayers, but sometimes his answer is 'no'.