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Quotes About Denial

Merely to resist evil with evil by hating those who hate us and seeking to destroy them, is actually no resistance at all. It is active and purposeful collaboration in evil that brings the Christian into direct and intimate contact with the same source of evil and hatred which inspires the acts of his enemy. It leads in practice to a denial of Christ and to the service of hatred rather than love.
~ Thomas Merton
This is the crucifixion of Christ: in which He dies again and again in the individuals who were made to share the joy and freedom of His grace, and who deny Him.
~ Thomas Merton
We will to separate ourselves from that love. We reject it entirely and absolutely, and will not acknowledge it, simply because it does not please us to be loved.
~ Thomas Merton
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 .
~ Thomas Merton
Hope is the living heart of asceticism. It teaches us to deny ourselves and leave the world not because either we or the world are evil, but because unless a supernatural hope raises us above the things of time we are in no condition to make a perfect use either of our own or of the world's true goodness. But
~ Thomas Merton
Aah, God help us, how sleazy is it, and how has it come to this? a rented palace, a denial of the passage of time, a mogul on the black-diamond slopes of the IT sector thinks he's a rock star.
~ Thomas Pynchon
One reason Humans remain young so long, compar'd to other Creatures, is that the young are useful in many ways, among them in providing daily, by way of the evil Creatures and Slaughter they love, a Denial of Mortality clamorous enough to allow their Elders release, if only for moments at a time, from Its Claims upon the Attention.
~ Thomas Pynchon
The ostrich burying its head in the sand does at any rate wish to convey the impression that its head is the most important part of it.
~ Katherine Mansfield
Experiencing a sense of futility can be a way of denying an immense and terrifying buildup of frustration—a well of distress and disappointment at having needs ignored or belittled time after time after time—and it can affect an adult's relationships, career, and deepest sense of self.
~ Katherine Mayfield
America is a country without death. Everything is shiny and new to make you forget such a thing exists.
~ Katherine Min
There is no official count of the number of pregnant women who have turned to Catholic hospitals and clinics when something goes wrong, only to be denied the medical care they need.
~ Katherine Stewart
The warmth that went through her could not be laid entirely to a hot blush. "You, sir, have a very evil imagination!" "Nay, madam," he denied. "Vivid, aye! But nothing about you is evil, and that's all I think about." -Erienne & Christopher
~ Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
Most diets would have you cutting things out from your diet they are about denial and discipline.
~ Kathy Freston
Maskirovka (masquerade) is a technique developed by the Russian military in the early part of the last century that can be summarized by three words: deception, denial, and disinformation.
~ Kati Marton
He's not really my man," I protested. One fuzzy white eyebrow rose over the lens of his glasses. "You were certainly ogling him as if he was.
~ Katie MacAlister
What's with you now, Kanda? I thought you weren't interested in me!" "I'm not. At all!
~ Katsura Hoshino
In a situation in which every rational person is telling you a fact and you're the one who denies it, doesn't that make you the one most likely wrong?
~ Kealan Patrick Burke
Aku tahu di dunia ini kadang kita harus menerima fakta yang tidak ingin kita percayai
~ Keigo Higashino
the best lies told were the ones we tell ourselves.
~ Keith Crews
Of course, you won't confirm or deny it, which means I'm probably right, since if I was wrong, you'd be gloating about it.
~ Keith R.A. DeCandido
The lifeblood of good conspiracies is that you'll never find out; the lack of evidence keeps them fresh. No one's ever going to find out if I had my blood changed or not. The story is well beyond the reach of evidence or, if it never happened, my denials. But then, read on. I have stood back for many years from honestly addressing that burning topic.
~ Keith Richards
those who view themselves as superior in society (with White men generally at the apex) are compelled to deny their "vile" sexuality and project their own very real sexual desires on others,
~ Kelly Brown Douglas
For a long time I thought I could deal with my anger and hostility on my own. But I couldn't. I denied that it had affected me, and yet I was so frantic on the inside with other people: I needed to be constantly reassured.
~ Kelly McGillis
To put it bluntly, the churchgoer has been influenced by the secular world that opposes the reality of the biblical Flood. Many in the Church succumb to this secular peer pressure and also deny the global Flood.
~ Ken Ham