Refusal Quotes

Faith is the refusal to panic.

Prayer is the disciplined refusal to act before God acts.

There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth.

The biggest obstacle to making Christ magnificent is the refusal to make yourself small.

Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.

He who asks with timidity invites a refusal.

There is only one meditation - the rigorous refusal to harbor thoughts.

He who awaits the call, but sees the need, Already sets his spirit to refuse it.

Refusal to forgive reveals we have minimized our offense against God and we have maximized a brother's offense against us.

Sometimes God's refusals are His mercies.

Our lack of intimacy is due to our refusal to unplug and shut off communication from all others so we can be alone with Him.

Only the refusal to listen guarantees one against being ensnared by the truth.

Faith is a refusal to panic, come what may.

Your suffering is shaped exactly by your refusal to open.

Refusal to hope is nothing more than a decision to die.

The only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own vocation, readiness to serve, and refusal to compromise.

Our refusal to fear reminds the devil that he is finished!

The principle was, death should not be entered like some snug harbor. It should be an unambiguous refusal to surrender.

No is no negative in a woman's mouth.

There is no such thing as failure for an artist, unless failure is the refusal to attempt, the unwillingness to dream.

A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.

The refusal to acknowledge the scientific value of embryonic stem cell research is one more tragic misstep.

The refusal to choose is a form of choice; disbelief is a form of belief.

The prompter the refusal, the less the disappointment.

The beginning of suffering is often a refusal to look at the situation as it really is.

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

He who begs timidly courts a refusal.

The unforgivable sin is the refusal to pardon.

Tout refus du langage est une mort. Any refusal of language is a death.

When all hope is lost, pig-headed refusal to acknowledge reality will always save the day.

What else is death but the refusal any longer to grow and suffer change?

The engineer's power was usually limited to a refusal to endorse a given plan, or to the tender of his resignation.

...into hate, into refusal, against hope and without fear

Frivolity is the species' refusal to suffer.

He who never says "no" is no true man.

Evil is the refusal to see one's self in others.

Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards because a refusal often offends, I read somewhere.

While the Jeffersonian did not flatly deny the Creator's power to perform miracles, he admired His refusal to do so.

The leading characteristic of the savage state is its refusal or avoidance of industry.

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

We gain power in our refusal to accept less than we deserve.

The test of intellect is the refusal to belabor the obvious.

Who timidly requests invites refusal.