Quotes About Love Refusal

#1. Into hate, into refusal, against hope and without fear

Lauren Oliver

#2. A singer who refused to sing, a friend who wasn't her friend, someone who was hers and yet would never be hers.
Kestrel looked away from Arin.
She swore to herself that she would never look back

Marie Rutkoski

#3. And there's also 'To him that hath shall be given.' After all, you must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can't give. Perhaps your own passion temporarily destroys the capacity.

C.S. Lewis

#4. Love reveals its insanity by its refusal to acknowledge the inherent NORMALITY of the loved one

Alain De Botton

#5. When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the question. Like, 'Peace, child; you don't understand.

C.S. Lewis

#6. What I love about Indiana Jones is he always bites off slightly more than he can chew. The guy he's fighting is always slightly tougher than he is, but he just refuses to give up. And that's what makes Indiana Jones a hero: not his superpowers, but his refusal to be beaten.

Neil Cross

#7. Everything else falls away except for the family you're born into, choose, or make; the circle of love you'll die to protect and keep near you. The only thing that keeps us rooted in the past is our refusal to embrace the present.

Karen Marie Moning

#8. My refusal to follow my husband's God-given leadership hurts the gospel, hurts the name of Christ, and repels unbelievers from finding the real love and real life that is only available in Jesus.

April Cassidy

#9. I committed a sin the day I refused you - I discovered metal inside me where my heart should be - forgive me, Love, for acting on principles ...

John Geddes

#10. If I ran a retail store, which I have done in my life, I would go into it from a place of "I am thrilled to be here, and I am honored to be able to serve other people."

Wayne Dyer

#11. God doesn't give up. His love is greater than our refusal to listen. - Richard Holland -

Gary Chapman

#12. History as a whole is the struggle between love and the inability to love, between love and the refusal to love.

Pope Benedict XVI

#13. People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth

Raoul Vaneigem

#14. Hell is the proof of God's failure or refusal to love.

Charles Baxter

#15. The refusal to love is the only unbearable thing.

Madeleine L'Engle

#16. Sin is a refusal to grow, a refusal to love, a refusal to get committed, to be concerned, and to take risks.

Anthony De Mello

#17. By this act He affirms that the enemy of love is pride, and that the enemy of all good is the refusal to love.

Antonin Sertillanges

#18. Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#19. My dad invented road rage. He wasn't the first guy to get mad in the car, but he was first guy to get mad enough to make the paper.

Christopher Titus

#20. Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

Jane Austen

#21. Whether arrived at through reason or revelation ... natural law is the highest law known to man. It is anchored in the very existential nature of man and is therefore a priori just.

Ilana Mercer

#22. Perhaps that is what love is
the momentary or prolonged refusal to think of another person in terms of power.

Phyllis Rose

#23. If I have refused to risk, I have in the self-same decision refused to love. And if indeed I have refused to love, tragically I have refused to live. And when will I realize that that in and of itself is an unacceptable risk.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#24. You led the soldiers right to my family's door. You're the reason they're dead.

Marie Lu

#25. Infinite Love is who we really are and who we refuse to be. This refusal is our most essential tension.

David Deida

#26. To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.

Marya Mannes

#27. A refusal to believe that God loves us is the unbelief which destroys the soul.

Edward Norris Kirk

#28. In the family of continents, Africa is the silent, the brooding sister, courted for centuries by knight-errant empires - rejecting them one by one and severally, because she is too sage and a little bored with the importunity of it all.

Beryl Markham

#29. Part of why I love New York so deeply is exactly this elusiveness. This refusal to be caught is what allows it to carry such fantasy, mystery and myth, yet also be home. It is simultaneously no one's city and everyone's city.

Becky Cooper

#30. Love is just a contact of no refusal.

Sol Michael