Being present means being completely aware of all that is. It means you’re not in denial, you’re not pretending, and you’re not avoiding.
I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened.
To have your attention in the Now is not a denial of what is needed in your life. It is recognition of what is primary.
The essence of sin is a shift from God centeredness to a self-centeredness. The essence of salvation is a denial of self, not an affirming of self.
I am camp. Lots of gay men can't cope with their campness. They are in denial about it.
Jesus rejected hatred because he saw that hatred meant death to the mind, death to the spirit, and death to communion with his Father. He affirmed life; and hatred was the great denial.
Anyone who would tackle our current addiction to fossil fuels is going to have to maneuver around denial.
Denial is an ugly thing.
Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.
Our huffing and puffing to impress God, our scrambling for brownie points, our thrashing about trying to fix ourselves while hiding our pettiness and wallowing in guilt are nauseating to God and are a flat denial of the gospel of grace.
underneath all that denial, you're someone who's deeply, deeply nice.
Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
I think the US is in a terrible state of denial. Worse than that, we seem to be caught in a kind of Gotterdammerung response: we'd rather have the world go down in flames than change our lifestyle or admit we're wrong.
A complete fast is a complete and literal denial of self. It is the truest prayer.
I take the love of God and self-denial to be the sum of all saving grace and religion.
If I murmur in the least at affliction, if I am in any way uncharitable, if I revenge my own case, if I do anything purely to please myself or omit anything because it is a great denial, if I trust myself, if I take any praise for any good which Christ does by me, or if I am in any way proud, I shall act as my own and not God’s.
My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason.
To the right person, the person who is truly born to it, duty is a form of love, through which all is possible. Duty is not always a denial of things, but an expansion of them to others. Duty is not always a chore, but is best carried out with love.
American society has gone completely into denial.
The speed of the human mind is remarkable. So is its inability to face the obvious.