Quotes about Resistance
We're always at war with good and evil in this world. No one escapes it. It's how we see it, how we recognize it that engages us in battle.
- Susan May Warren
But every time you yield to the temptation, the easier it becomes to yield again and the more difficult it becomes to resist the next time.
- Napoleon Hill
And God has this funny way of stretching and changing and pushing us toward things we don't want to face. I don't think the past is something we deal with as much as it deals with us.
- Chris Fabry
I'm not the kind of guy who can be sitting around listening to Joni Mitchell, chilling. I'd rather bash my head against a wall.
- Keith Flint
there was no bad luck in the world but whitepeople. 'They don't know when to stop,' she said, and returned to her bed, pulled up the quilt and left them to hold that thought forever.
- Toni Morrison
schoolteacher didn't take advice from Negroes. The information they offered he called backtalk and developed a variety of corrections (which he recorded in his notebook) to reeducate them.
- Toni Morrison
The normal Christian Life is not supposed to be an exhausting wrestling match with a dead man, but is an abundant, joy-filled life with God, salted with an occasional season of strong resistance from our archenemy.
- Kris Vallotton
We cannot be tempted with something we have no desire for.
- Kris Vallotton
When believers refuse to listen to the devil, however, he becomes a powerless pawn of God's divine purposes. I
- Kris Vallotton
Even the idyllic garden of Eden was a war zone. The command to rule and subdue put God's image bearers on high alert that fierce resistance lay ahead.
- Carolyn Custis James
There is a Destiny which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature.
- George Washington
It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honour, his religion, his soul, and lay the foundation for that empire's fall or its regeneration.
- Mahatma Gandhi