If a favour is asked of you, grant it if you can. If not, refuse it in such a manner as that one denial may be sufficient.

There are ministers who never speak of repentance or self-denial. Naturally they are popular, but they are false prophets.

There's no denial that one's gender orientation is certainly a core characteristic of any person, but it's not the only one.

'For Those Who Can Tell No Tales' is a story of memory and the energy of places that remain full of drama, pain, and denial.

While denial leads to certainty, it is only the certainty of death. This is true for individuals and also for civilizations.

One belief that I've developed to carry me through extremely tough times is simply this: God's delays are not God's denials.

It's up to any government to decide how to react to the denial of basic human rights anywhere in the world, including Egypt.

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

We all do things where we don't care about other people. And we deal with it in whatever ways we can, denial or make excuses.

I'm in denial in its lesser state. It will take me a second. People around me will notice my mania first. And, my depression.

We can scale the heights of mountains and see the world rayed out before us, but we fail to recognize that which is before us

Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.

I certainly did work at an amusement park. In 1985. Wow - I'm in denial about the year. I was in college, and I had no skills.

I was now prepared to accept any faith so long as it did not demand a direct denial of reason, which would have been a deceit.

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.

More consequences for thought and action follow the affirmation or denial of God than from answering any other basic question.

We figure out what death means when we're born, practically, and we live our whole lives in some kind of weird denial about it.

We should celebrate variety rather than conformity and allow people to express themselves. That we don't is more of our denial.

There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed.

There's no question that [Donald] Trump got elected because of rural America. And our party still is in denial. They don't get it.

Let India become alive by self-purification, that is self-restraint and self-denial, and she will be a boon to herself and mankind.

But we need to be very clear: because of our decades of collective denial, no gradual, incremental options are now available to us.

Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.

For however often a man may receive an obligation from you, if you refuse a request, all former favors are effaced by this one denial.

Parents are in denial a lot of the time - everybody knows what they did as a teenager, but somehow, when they grow up, it all disappears.

Being present means being completely aware of all that is. It means you’re not in denial, you’re not pretending, and you’re not avoiding.

The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.

Anything you believe you have to do or become before you can be free is a denial and distraction from the truth that you are already free.

[Heresy is] the dislocation of a complete and self-supporting scheme by the introduction of a novel denial of some essential part therein.

I tell myself, 'If I can wake up each day and be excited about what I'm doing, then I must be happy.' But then again, maybe I'm in denial.

Denial helps us to pace our feelings of grief. There is a grace in denial. It is nature's way of letting in only as much as we can handle.

The only the way that you can live and function without seeing the facts in front of you is to put yourself in a constant state of denial.

The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma.

It could fairly be said that America, during the Bush years, has entered an Age of Denial - arguably the first stage of a nation's decline.

There is no better way to make peace than to talk in each other's home. Avoiding such talks is a denial of the purpose of the negotiations.

If you try to assert wisdom before people have themselves walked it, be prepared for much resistance, denial, push-back, and verbal debate.

To say 'I quit' brings a lot of criticism, but to get disqualified and say the ref was unfair and harsh, in denial - fans will jump on that.

The denial of an objective moral law, based on the compulsion to deny the existence of God, results ultimately in the denial of evil iteself.

Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.

All man's failures are either because of the religious denial of man's biological needs or the materialistic denial of man's spiritual desires.

Disinformation is more than just lying: it's the denial and twisting of reality in order to present some desired image to the rest of the world.

Freedom has always been an expensive thing. History is fit testimony to the fact that freedom is rarely gained without sacrifice and self-denial.

You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.

employers sense in me a denial of their values...they fear me. i suspect that they can see that i am forced to function in a century which i loathe.

The Saudi government's denial of basic rights to women is not only wrong, it hurts Saudi Arabia's economic development, modernization and prosperity.

The obvious danger is that in some situations [denial] can lead to procrastination in seeking help or to avoidance of action that might prevent harm.

As we rise higher in the understanding of ourselves, the national and racial dissonances will be forgotten in the universal rhythms of Truth and Love

Political correctness is about denial, usually in the weasel circumlocutory jargon which distorts and evades and seldom stands up to honest analysis.

One thing I do know, and that is, that neither hope, nor fear, belief, nor denial, can change the fact. It is as it is, and it will be as it must be.

To live with the terrible truths about ourselves is the only way of not living them out. A need denied has infinitely more power than a need accepted.

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