Pastoral Resources

The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed the white slaves of the North, for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair.

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.

My parents are really well intended, and I think their way of dealing with things is denial and guilt. Nobody wanted to talk about it. But all I did was blame myself.

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

Your denial is beneath you, and thanks to the use of hallucinogenic drugs, I see through you.

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

I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.

Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.

All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.

The primary symptom of a controller is denial, that is I can't see its symptoms in myself.

To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.

I think the media has been in denial just like the party regulars have been in denial. They just don't understand that the government that we have today is not what the people want as a government.

I have a very highly developed sense of denial.

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

Hearing loss very often is such a gradual phenomenon that the person is in denial. You really have to be patient with them in getting them to come forward to get help.

Since the birth of our Nation, no other right has been more important than having the ability to vote. Unfortunately, as history has shown, the denial of this right to minorities is a scar on our system of democracy.

Despite the state of denial exhibited by most Democrats, Americans all across the nation acknowledge that changes are necessary to preserve Social Security for today's younger workers.

There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed.

I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened.

The greatest barrier to someone achieving their potential is their denial of it.