"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 is a state of mind with no legs. Therefore, while it works very hard to convince me that I’ve run far away from that which frightens me, it can’t take me anywhere except where I’m at."

"Darkness should never be an excuse to quit, for with God, darkness is the exact stuff that light was built for."

"I paved the path to the very place I don’t want to be. But passing the blame off to someone else doesn’t put me any place else."

"Diversions and detours of our grandest designs only serve to bolster our need to be in the places that we’re vigorously trying to walk away from."

"Being the victim gives me permission to avoid the fact that people do understand, for then I no longer have any grounds to defend my position based on their ignorance."

"A lie is my attempt to tamper with the truth so that I need not face the truth. Yet as shrewd as I think myself to be, I would be wise to understand that God designed truth as ultimately tamper-proof."

"Some things will always and forever defy the denial that we take up to slay them."