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For Israel is as obstinate as a stubborn heifer. Can the LORD now shepherd them like lambs in an open meadow?
— Hosea 4:16
Upon the obstinate irrepressible conviction which makes youth so intolerably disagreeable—I am what I am, and intend to be it.
— Virginia Woolf
But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass through, for the LORD your God had made his spirit stubborn and his heart obstinate, that He might deliver him into your hand, as is the case this day.
— Deuteronomy 2:30
But these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts. They have turned aside and gone away.
— Jeremiah 5:23
The name of the one was Obstinate and the name of the other Pliable.
— John Bunyan
They are obstinate and stubborn children. I am sending you to them, and you are to say to them, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says.’
— Ezekiel 2:4
O how many follow them today, people full of envy and the gall of vengefulness who fashion I do not know what kind of idol of jealousy for themselves and lie about the severity of righteousness as they seek the most obstinate lie!
— Martin Luther
All day long I have held out My hands to an obstinate people who walk in the wrong path, who follow their own imaginations,
— Isaiah 65:2
For the LORD your God had made his spirit stubborn and his heart obstinate in order to give him into your hands, as he has now done" (Deuteronomy 2:30).
— Jerry Bridges
There's your law of precedents; there's your utility of traditions; there's the story of your obstinate survival of old beliefs never bottomed on the earth, and now not even hovering in the air! There's orthodoxy!
— Herman Melville
The neighbours also came out to see him run [Jer. 20:10]; and, as he ran, some mocked, others threatened, and some cried after him to return; and, among those that did so, there were two that resolved to fetch him back by force. The name of the one was Obstinate and the name of the other Pliable.
— John Bunyan
with man sexual gratification is tied to a very obstinate selectivity which is sometimes intensified into a more or less passionate love. Thus sexuality becomes for man a source of brief pleasure and protracted suffering.
— Arthur Schopenhauer