Quotes about Resist

Everyone has temptations but some folks entertain them . . .Get your eyes off the temptation and onto Christ!

Temptation: Recognize it for what it is, and then reject it—immediately and without compromise.

Never forget: Satan's goal is to turn us away from God.

Don't savor temptations; don't dwell on them or toy with them or replay them over and over in your mind. The more you think about a particular temptation, the more enticing it becomes.

Every stage of life has its own temptations and dangers, and Satan will do all he can to exploit them . . .the time to prepare is now, not when it arrives.

Temptation is not a sin. It is the yielding that is sin. All temptation is from the devil.

Don't give Satan a foothold, but discipline yourself to stay close to God. He alone is your security.

The mind commands the body, and it obeys instantly; the mind commands itself, and is resisted.

For God is unchangeable, and wholly proof against injury. Therefore the vice which makes those who are called His enemies resist Him, is an evil not to God, but to themselves. And to them it is an evil, solely because it corrupts the good of their nature.

When I am commanded to love, I am commanded to restore community, to resist injustice, and to meet the needs of my brothers.

And because God's love is uncoercive and treasures our freedom - if above all he wants us to love him, then we must be left free not to love him - we are free to resist it, deny it, crucify it finally, which we do again and again. This is our terrible freedom, which love refuses to overpower so that, in this, the greatest of all powers, God's power, is itself powerless.

Matthew lists Rahab as one of the ancestresses of the Lord Jesus Christ (Matthew 1:5), and that may be one reason why there was something about free-wheeling ladies with warm and generous hearts that he was never quite able to resist.