refuse Quotes

“We need to recapture the gospel glow of the early Christians, who were nonconformists in the truest sense of the word and refused to shape their witness according to the mundane patterns of the world.”

“Sin happens whenever we refuse to keep growing.”

“God answers all prayers, but sometimes his answer is ‘no’.”

“Learn to say no. When you are saying yes to an unimportant thing, you are saying no to an important one.”

“I refuse to believe we are in the city of happiness and that instead we are all ones who walked away . . . Then I think we are all in the closet. Too stupid to understand what life we could have outside the walls around us.”

“It’s the little things that find us out, the little things we refuse to do in order to avoid doing the big things that can save us.”

“Habit will be your champion. When you train the mind to think one way and one way only, when you refuse to allow it to think in another, that will produce great strength in battle.”

“Some of us deliberate; some of us refuse the decision, which is itself a decision; some of us leap giddily into the decision, setting our jaws and closing our eyes, which is the sort of decision of despair. ”

Retta, the eldest, has tried her best to replace their mother, but Johnny, the middle child, is fed up with Retta. He refuses to let her have any control over him. Desperate to try be a mother to him, she follows him one night when he slips out to be with a friend. She scolds him, but his friend sticks up for him, she can’t help be angry at both of them. Roy, who was left at home, is upset because he was left out of some “secret operation”.

“Later on, Violet’s father says that they are to go to their Gran’s house to wish her a happy birthday, but Will refuses because how she had charmlessly told him that he was adopted. ”

″...since he left Stone Mountain, he won’t wear anything orange. He won’t let anyone stand behind him. He won’t let anyone touch him. He won’t go into rooms that are too small. And he won’t eat canned peaches.”

“She could not heal and she refused to even try.”

“Horatio cannot refuse the lady, but as a happily married man, he finds himself tortured by Barbara’s tempting nature and astounding beauty.”

Nay, if it made me a king, I’d not be scorned for seeking her good-will any more.”