Quotes About Denials

#1. The tragic reality is that there have been occasions when [Mormon] Church leaders, teachers, and writers have not told the truth they knew about difficulties of the Mormon past, but have offered to the Saints instead a mixture of platitudes, half-truths, omissions, and plausible denials.

D. Michael Quinn

#2. 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

#3. We need to pay as much attention to improper denials as we do to improper grants.

Lane Evans

#4. In order to attract us, the Lord grants us many graces that we believe can easily obtain Heaven for us. We do not know, however, that in order to grow, we need hard bread: the cross, humiliation, trials and denials.

Pio Of Pietrelcina

#5. One picture is worth 1,000 denials.

Ronald Reagan

#6. The severest self-denials and the most lavish gifts are of no value in God's esteem unless they are prompted by love.

Arthur W. Pink

#7. God's delays are not God's denials.

Robert H. Schuller

#8. People tend to believe accusations more than denials.

Mary McMullen

#9. God's delay's are not His denials

John Hagee

#10. We did exactly what everybody in the country did, watching it. You entered this state of sort of denials. You think, well, it must have been a tragic accident by an amateur pilot. And then you see the next plane coming.

Diane Sawyer

#11. The whole story of human and personal progress is an unmitigated tale of denials today-denials of rest, denials or repose and comfort and ease and pleasure-that tomorrow may be richer.

James Carroll

#12. When the mind opens by speaking denials, this true Self that philosophers have so long striven to free shows itself all glorious with wisdom, strength, and holiness ... Denial of evil is a word of Truth.

Myrtle Fillmore

#13. I picture is worth 1000 denials.

Ronald Reagan

#14. Take thy self-denials gaily and cheerfully, and let the sunshine of thy gladness fall on dark things and bright alike, like the sunshine of the Almighty.

James Freeman Clarke

#15. My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason.

Mikhail Lermontov

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

Anthony Robbins

#17. You can choose to live your lives as demonstrations of your highest and grandest beliefs, rather than as denials of them.

Neale Donald Walsch

#18. While the blustery Luther, with his categorical denials of any ambiguity in the Bible, stands as the champion of the humble reader, the reasoning Luther stands within the stream of creeds and scholarship that defines more soberly and narrowly the scope and nature of the Bible's clarity.

Jerry L. Walls

#19. The primary dues a writer or any artist pays is to remain sentient, and to forfeit the illusionary luxury of such anesthetics as avoidance, numbness, and denials.

Vanna Bonta

#20. Never think that God's delays are God's denials. True prayer always receives what it asks, or something better.

Tryon Edwards

#21. No amount of denials, protestations, or defenses seemed to make any difference, in what is called the 'court' of public opinion.

Joyce Carol Oates

#22. It's a truism that denials never quite catch up with charges. Honest journalists who may have mistakenly printed false information know that the most prominent retraction never quite undoes the damage done by the original publication.

Tom Wicker

#23. A picture is worth 1,000 denials.

Ronald Reagan

#24. I issued a number of denials to people I thought needed to hear them

William J. Clinton

#25. Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.

Charles Caleb Colton

#26. Alan Schwarz of the New York Times calls up the NFL to get a response, and what he gets from Greg Aiello, the league spokesman, is more denials. They are now denying their own study.

Steve Fainaru

#27. In general, insurers say criticisms of claims-handling are unfair because most policyholders are paid promptly, and some denials are necessary to root out fraud.

Charles Duhigg

#28. The denials, if they need be given, could better be given with sincerity, and they could only be feigned if you didn't know them at all.

Kenneth Eade

#29. Know this: God's delays are not necessarily His denials. So keep praying.

Greg Laurie

#30. Consciousness that is not translated into appropriate action is a betrayal of consciousness ... Living consciously is living responsibly toward reality. We do not necessarily have to like what we see but we recognize that wishes or fears or denials do not alter facts.

Nathaniel Branden

#31. His life was a long line of denials, just waiting for him.

Gillian Flynn

#32. Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.

Demosthenes