#denial

Snufflers are afraid to experience the abundant possibilities of air, its hidden flurries of ferment. The denial of life is strong in the nose-breather. ↗

— Benson Bruno

#funny #nose #experience

You shall find it greatly mitigates the sorrow of bereavements, if before bereavement you shall have learned to surrender every day all the things which are dearest to you into the keeping of your gracious God. ↗

— Charles H. Spurgeon

#faith #self-denial #surrender #trust #faith

The worst abuse of freedom is to deny that it exists. ↗

— Marty Rubin

#denial #freedom #freedom

Very harmful effects can follow accepting the philosophy which denies personal guilt or sin and thereby makes everyone nice. By denying sin, the nice people make a cure impossible. Sin is most serious, and the tragedy is deepened by the denial that we are sinners…The really unforgiveable sin is the denial of sin, because, by its nature, there is now nothing to be forgiven. By refusing to admit to personal guilt, the nice people are made into scandalmongers, gossips, talebearers, and supercritics, for they must project their real if unrecognized guilt to others. This, again, gives them a new illusion of goodness: the increase of faultfinding is in direct ratio and proportion to the denial of sin. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#denial-of-sin #guilt #sin #nature

The human mind isn't a terribly logical or consistent place. Most people, given the choice to face a hideous or terrifying truth or to conveniently avoid it, choose the convenience and peace of normality. That doesn't make them strong or weak people, or good or bad people. It just makes them people. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#humanity #people #logic

That’s pretty much how we get through our own lives, watching television. Smoking crap. Self-medicating. Redirecting our attention. Jacking off. Denial. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#television

We live in a world of denial, and we don't know what the truth is anymore. ↗

— Javier Bardem

#denial #know #live #truth #truth is

I'm lucky that my real-life Mom has both a great sense of humor about herself and an amazing ability to slip into complete denial if the subject matter gets a little too close to home. ↗

— Cathy Guisewite

#about #amazing #both #close #complete

I learned denial from my mother. I just never confronted things and if anybody did, I just would go crazy. ↗

— Tab Hunter

#confronted #crazy #denial #did #go

I'd be like, 'You're a young, vibrant woman. Where are you?' I realized that I had been living in denial. ↗

— Lorraine Bracco

#denial #had #i #like #living