Quotes about Resistance

What I know for sure is that there is no strength without challenge, adversity, resistance, and often pain.

Every woman is a rebel.

Because a lot of the time ever when I say anything about how the world is goin to hell in a handbasket people will just sort of smile and tell me I'm gettin old.

He found Reese asleep in a wrecked car behind the cabins. Suttree shook him gently awake into a world he wanted no part of. The old man fought it.

Don't worry when you meet opposition for obeying God. Worry when you don't have opposition, because you're probably not obeying God.

Some sort of perversity in our souls makes us not want, get away from, the very thing we want. We have to fight against that.

We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.

[T]ruth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it. Ignorance may deride it. Malice may distort it. But there it is.

He is not pestered by the banal desires common to all men; he is tempted by the greatest, the most momentous, messianic temptations; they must be met and overcome in the desert where Israel experienced them and later succumbed.

One man alone can't defeat the forces of evil, but many good people coming together can.

There had been incidents meant to remind them that they were being watched. Yet there had also been more arrests and darker threats and cruel floggings. The religious authorities had no intention of letting the group continue unchallenged. When any possible reason for an offense could be generated, they took full advantage.

Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.