Quotes about Resist
I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science.
- John Polkinghorne
Which of us can resist the temptation of being thought indispensable?
- Margaret Atwood
No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.
- JRR Tolkien
The connected economy of ideas demands that we contribute initiative. And yet we resist, because our lizard brain, the one that lives in fear, relentlessly exaggerates the cost of being wrong.
- Seth Godin
Providence has delivered me of every worldly passion, save this one; the desire to acquire books, new or old books of any kind, whose charms I cannot persuade myself to resist.
- John Henry Newman
The devil tempts us not; 'tis we who tempt him, beckoning his skill with opportunity.
- George Eliot
Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.
- Billy Sunday
When the Word, by the power of the Spirit, is heard, embraced, and enjoyed, we are strengthened to resist the flesh and to savor the Son.
- Sam Storms
be killing sin or it will be killing you.
- John Owen
I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science.
- John Polkinghorne
Every temptation is an opportunity of our getting nearer to God.
- John Quincy Adams
How is it more for the glory of God to save man irresistibly, than to save him as a free agent, by such grace as he may either concur or resist?
- John Wesley