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Refusal Quotes

1.
Faith is the refusal to panic.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Authors on Refusal Quotes: Seneca the Younger Martyn Lloyd-Jones John Lahr Alfred Bester Dante Alighieri Francis Chan Andrei Tarkovsky Publilius Syrus Richard Powers Dorothy Thompson Lois Capps Samuel Florman David Deida Laurence Overmire Andy Ihnatko Philip Sidney Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Bernie Siegel Samuel Richardson David Malouf Frank Barron Antoine de Saint-Exupery Elisabeth Elliot Robert Nozick Bill Johnson Terry Pratchett Deepak Chopra George Santayana Arthur Brisbane Eugene H. Peterson Roland Barthes Alistair Begg Thomas Keneally
2.
Prayer is the disciplined refusal to act before God acts.
Eugene H. Peterson

3.
There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth.
Dorothy Thompson

4.
The biggest obstacle to making Christ magnificent is the refusal to make yourself small.
James MacDonald

5.
Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.
Diana Vreeland

6.
He who asks with timidity invites a refusal.
Seneca the Younger

7.
There is only one meditation - the rigorous refusal to harbor thoughts.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

8.
He who awaits the call, but sees the need, Already sets his spirit to refuse it.
Dante Alighieri

9.
Refusal to forgive reveals we have minimized our offense against God and we have maximized a brother's offense against us.
Alistair Begg

10.
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.
Francis Chan

11.
Only the refusal to listen guarantees one against being ensnared by the truth.
Robert Nozick

12.
Sometimes God's refusals are His mercies.
Elisabeth Elliot

13.
Faith is a refusal to panic, come what may.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones

14.
Your suffering is shaped exactly by your refusal to open.
David Deida

15.
Refusal to hope is nothing more than a decision to die.
Bernie Siegel

16.
The only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own vocation, readiness to serve, and refusal to compromise.
Andrei Tarkovsky

17.
Our refusal to fear reminds the devil that he is finished!
Bill Johnson

18.
The principle was, death should not be entered like some snug harbor. It should be an unambiguous refusal to surrender.
Thomas Keneally

19.
No is no negative in a woman's mouth.
Philip Sidney

20.
There is no such thing as failure for an artist, unless failure is the refusal to attempt, the unwillingness to dream.
Laurence Overmire

21.
A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
Samuel Richardson

22.
The refusal to acknowledge the scientific value of embryonic stem cell research is one more tragic misstep.
Lois Capps

23.
The refusal to choose is a form of choice; disbelief is a form of belief.
Frank Barron

24.
The prompter the refusal, the less the disappointment.
Publilius Syrus

25.
The beginning of suffering is often a refusal to look at the situation as it really is.
Deepak Chopra

26.
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

27.
He who begs timidly courts a refusal.
Seneca the Younger

28.
The unforgivable sin is the refusal to pardon.
George Santayana

29.
Tout refus du langage est une mort. Any refusal of language is a death.
Roland Barthes

30.
When all hope is lost, pig-headed refusal to acknowledge reality will always save the day.
Andy Ihnatko

31.
Frivolity is the species' refusal to suffer.
John Lahr

32.
He who never says "no" is no true man.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

33.
Evil is the refusal to see one's self in others.
Richard Powers

34.
Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards because a refusal often offends, I read somewhere.
Terry Pratchett

35.
The leading characteristic of the savage state is its refusal or avoidance of industry.
Arthur Brisbane

36.
While the Jeffersonian did not flatly deny the Creator's power to perform miracles, he admired His refusal to do so.
Daniel J. Boorstin

37.
Perhaps that is what love is -- the momentary or prolonged refusal to think of another person in terms of power.
Phyllis Rose

38.
We gain power in our refusal to accept less than we deserve.
Amber Hollibaugh

39.
The test of intellect is the refusal to belabor the obvious.
Alfred Bester

40.
Who timidly requests invites refusal.
Seneca the Younger

41.
What else is death but the refusal any longer to grow and suffer change?
David Malouf

42.
The engineer's power was usually limited to a refusal to endorse a given plan, or to the tender of his resignation.
Samuel Florman

43.
...into hate, into refusal, against hope and without fear
Lauren Oliver