"The worst denial of all is being in denial that we're in denial in the first place. And I would wonder if that's not exactly where most of us live out most of our lives."

Denial, Truth, Wisdom, Power

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"The worst denial of all is being in denial that we're in denial in the first place. And I would wonder if that's not exactly where most of us live out most of our lives."

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"The worst denial of all is being in denial that we're in denial in the first place. And I would wonder if that's not exactly where most of us live out most of our lives."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

Denial, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"Burying your head in the sand does not make you invisible it only leads to suffocation."

Wayne Gerard Trotman, British Author

Denial, Consequence, Reality, Awareness

"I put up a huge wall of denial. It was years before I was able to break through it... accepting that your child has a disability, especially one like LD that cannot be seen or easily diagnosed, is one of the hardest things to come to terms with."

Anne Ford, American Author

Denial, Disability, Years

"A kingdom established on hatred is a function of denial of God."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Denial, Hatred, Kingdom, God

"I know this is war, but the rest of us are trying to pretend it's a party."

Kristin Cashore, American Author

Denial, War, Irony, Contrast

"Or he was simply pretending-like many drinkers, he liked to think each new day drew a line under the day before."

Ian McEwan, British Author

Denial, Addiction, Repetition, Escape

"She's probably in denial that she's a great big ball of insecurity and I'm quite well aware that I am one."

Boy George, English Musician

Denial, Insecurity

"Denial is a seductive ruse of our own making, force-fitting our agendas by forcing out truth all because we bent to fear rather than bowed to God."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

Denial, Fear, Faith, Truth

"I knew I was being an idiot. But I figured if I kept being an idiot, if I didn't actually accept the truth, then the truth would become false."

Sherman Alexie, American Writer

Denial, Self-Deception, Truth, Irony

"With their backs to the sunrise they worship the night."

Robert Green Ingersoll, American Lawyer

Denial, Ignorance, Symbolism, Darkness

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"God chose to deliberately venture into and intentionally occupy depths far below and infinitely beyond that which any human has ever descended, and then to raise Himself back up to glory from those horridly dark places. And I pray that we never miss the fact that Christmas is God's invitation for us to join Him in the rising."

Faith

"I have both the violent turbulence of the storm and the quiet promises of God in the storm. And what I must work to remember is that something is not necessarily stronger simply because it's louder."

Strength

"The greatest imagination in all of existence is one that would be able to take 'nothing' and imagine 'something' from 'nothing.' And that is God."

Creation

"If I give with the motive to get, regardless of the degree to which that motive besets me, I will walk away impoverished and I will leave those to whom I have given just as impoverished as I have now found myself."

Generosity

"With God, the fear of failure is slain cold by success that is already hot on the way."

Success

"If it's about me, I can be assured that there will be a bunch of empty chairs in the auditorium of my life; save the one I'm sitting in."

Loneliness

"Everything I touch makes me a little bit more like the thing I'm touching, so I'd better start paying attention to what I'm touching."

Influence

"My first mistake is to humanize God. My second mistake is to hold those wretched human characteristics up against all of the majestic things that I sense God should be. The blatant discrepancy which is certain to ensue then allows me to not only justify my rejection of Him, it grants me unbridled permission to discount His existence altogether. And that third and final mistake is without a doubt the most costly of all."

Doubt

"I don't necessarily sit around inviting life to knock me down, but when it does I don't wait around for an invitation to stand back up either."

Resilience

"Too often the spotlight that highlights our successes burns out quickly, while the spotlight that scrutinizes our failures is a long-life bulb."

Success