Denied Quotes - Page 20

• The literary gift is a mere accident - is as often bestowed on idiots who have nothing to say worth hearing as it is denied to strenuous sages.

  Max Beerbohm

  Sage, Hearing, Idiot

  Sir Max Beerbohm, Rupert Hart-Davis (1988). “Letters of Max Beerbohm, 1892-1956”

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• The Scots are poor, cries surly English pride; True is the charge, nor by themselves denied. Are they not then in strictest reason clear, Who wisely come to mend their fortunes here?

  Charles Churchill

  Pride, Scotland, Cry

  Charles Churchill, George Gilfillan (1855). “The poetical works of Charles Churchill: with memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes / by the Rev. George Gilfillan”, p.68

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• Curiosity needs food as much as any of us, and dies soon if denied it.

  Stella Benson

  Curiosity, Needs, Dies

  Stella Benson (1916). “I Pose”

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• Martin Luther described the doctrine of justification by faith as the article of faith that decides whether the church is standing or falling. By this he meant that when this doctrine is understood, believed, and preached, as it was in New-Testament times, the church stands in the grace of God and is alive; but where it is neglected, overlaid, or denied, ... the church falls from grace and its life drains away, leaving it in a state of darkness and death.

  J. I. Packer

  Fall, Leaving, Darkness

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• The declared enemies of God and His Church, heretics and schismatics, must be criticized as much as possible, as long as truth is not denied. It is a work of charity to shout: 'Here is the wolf!' when it enters the flock or anywhere else.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Powerful, Long, Catholic

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• Prayer is the little implement through which men reach; where presence is denied them.

  Emily Dickinson

  Prayer, Men, Littles

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.276, Harvard University Press

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• Prayer is the little implement
  Through which Men reach
  Where Presence - is denied them.
  They fling their Speech
  By means of it - in God's Ear -
  If then He hear -
  This sums the Apparatus
  Comprised in Prayer

  Emily Dickinson

  Prayer, Mean, Men

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.276, Harvard University Press

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• Our citizens will lose their confidence or trust in the values and principles of the international community, especially if our personal identity is denied.

  Boris Trajkovski

  Confidence, Community, Identity

  "Man of Vision: Interview with the President Of the Republic of Macedonia Mr. Boris Trajkovski". "Macedonia: A Nation at a Crossroads" by Sam Vaknin, February 12, 2009.

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• A Letter is a Joy of Earth - It is denied the Gods

  Emily Dickinson

  Joy, Earth, Letters

  Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.807, Harvard University Press

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• Women have been denied access to advanced methods of self discovery throughout the ages.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Discovery, Self

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• They are denied access to the more advanced techniques of releasing the kundalini energy, which bring about quantum leaps in self-awareness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Self, Enlightenment

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• If sound doctrine is given up, the real Gospel of redemption by the blood of the Son of God is denied, worldliness follows.

  Arno C. Gaebelein

  Christian, Real, Son

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• There are many people who could claim and learn from their Indian ancestry, but because of the fear their parents and grandparents knew, because of past and present prejudice against Indian people, that part of their heritage is clouded or denied.

  Joseph Bruchac

  Past, People, Grandparent

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• When all authority of every kind is put aside, denied, then you can find out for yourself.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Kind, Authority

  Jiddu Krishnamurti's 4th public talk in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May 28, 1967.

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• For love is a flattering mischief, that hath denied aged and wise men a foresight of those evils that too often prove to be the children of that blind father; a passion, that carries us to commit errors with as much ease as whirlwinds move feathers, and begets in us an unwearied industry to the attainment of what we desire.

  Izaak Walton

  Wise, Children, Father

  John Bunyan, Izaak Walton (2010). “The Pilgrim's Progress & the Lives of Donne and Herbert”, p.330, Cosimo, Inc.

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• In each of us lies sleeping beauty, wasted potential, dying dreams. We sleep and live in dormant twilight, never knowing what it means to live, to love the bits of heaven that we can unearth deep in our hearts; not recognizing that our salvation is ever-present in those parts that we have disowned, denied, forgotten. The thorns of fear thwart faint attempt. The prince is courage, the kiss believing and then with these our life begins.

  Kay Thompson

  Dream, Lying, Believe

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• If a man says that he is Jesus Christ, it is no answer to tell him that the world denies his divinity; for the world denied Christ's.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Jesus, Men, World

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• Men that are free, well-born, well-bred, and conversant in honest companies, have naturally an instinct and spur that prompteth them unto virtuous actions, and withdraws them from vice, which is called honour. Those same men, when by base subjection and constraint they are brought under and kept down, turn aside from that noble disposition, by which they formerly were inclined to virtue, to shake off and break that bond of servitude, wherein they are so tyrannously enslaved; for it is agreeable with the nature of man to long after things forbidden, and to desire what is denied us.

  Francois Rabelais

  Men, Long, Honor

  "Gargantua (The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel, Book II)". Book by Francois Rabelais, 1534.

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• The pain of sexual frustration, of repressed tenderness, of denied curiosity, of isolation in the ego, of greed, suppressed rebellion, of hatred poisoning all love and generosity, permeates our sexuality. What we love we destroy.

  Germaine Greer

  Pain, Frustration, Generosity

  Germaine Greer (1990). “The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings”, p.57, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• My feelings, gratitude, for instance, are denied me simply because of my social position.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Gratitude, Feelings, Social

  "The Brothers Karamazov". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1879 - 1880.

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• The great writers to whom the world owes what religious liberty it possesses, have mostly asserted freedom of conscience as an indefeasible right, and denied absolutely that a human being is accountable to others for his religious belief. Yet so natural to mankind is intolerance in whatever they really care about, that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realised, except where religious indifference, which dislikes to have its peace disturbed by theological quarrels, has added its weight to the scale.

  John Stuart Mill

  Religious, Tolerance, Religion

  John Stuart Mill (2016). “On Liberty: Mill's Works”, p.17, VM eBooks

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• It might be plausibly maintained, that in almost every one of the leading controversies, past or present, in social philosophy, both sides were in the right in what they affirmed, though wrong in what they denied.

  John Stuart Mill

  Philosophy, Past, Might

  John Stuart Mill (1864). “Dissertations and Discussions: Political, Philosophical, and Historical”, p.11

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• Washington is the place where nobody believes a rumor until it has been officially denied.

  Evan Esar

  Believe, Rumor, Denial

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• We live in a culture in which intelligence is denied relevance altogether, in a search for radical innocence, or is defended as an instrument of authority and repression. In my view, the only intelligence worth defending is critical, dialectical, skeptical, desimplifying.

  Susan Sontag

  Views, Intelligence, Culture

  Salmagundi, No. 31-32, (p. 29), 1975.

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• It cannot be denied that Islam, regarded as an ethical ideal plus a certain kind of polity - by which expression I mean a social structure regulated by a legal system and animated by a specific ethical ideal - has been the chief formative factor in the life-history of the Muslims of India. It has furnished those basic emotions and loyalties which gradually unify scattered individuals and groups, and finally transform them into a well-defined people, possessing a moral consciousness of their own.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Loyalty, Mean, Expression

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal (2005). “Speeches, Writings, and Statements of Iqbal”

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