Quotes about Rebellion

Tradition implies authority, conformity, imitation, following.

Him the Almighty Power Hurl'd headlong flaming from th' ethereal sky With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless perdition, there to dwellIn adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy th' Omnipotent to arms.

When night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.

Moloch, scepter'd king, Stood up, the strongest and the fiercest spirit that fought in heav'n; now fiercer by despair.

Better reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.

God put the physical world under a curse so that the physical horrors we see around us in diseases and calamities would become a vivid picture of how horrible sin is. In other words, physical evil is a parable, a drama, a signpost pointing to the moral outrage of rebellion against God.

Most people don't feel conscious hostility to God. The hostility is manifest more subtly with a quiet insubordination and indifference.

In other words, physical evil is a parable, a drama, a signpost pointing to the moral outrage of rebellion against God.

People lift their hand to rebel against the Most High only to find that their rebellion is unwitting service in the wonderful designs of God.

Unsteadiness in family government is productive of great harm, in fact is nearly as bad as no government at all. The question is often asked, Why are the children of religious parents so often headstrong, defiant, and rebellious? The reason is to be found in the home training. Too often the parents are not united in their family government.

For what was the great controversy permitted to continue throughout the ages? Why was it that Satan's existence was not cut short at the outset of his rebellion? It was that the universe might be convinced of God's justice in His dealing with evil; that sin might receive eternal condemnation.

If the love of God will not induce the rebel to yield the terrors of an eternal hell will not drive him to repentance,