Quotes about Resistance

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful. It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain. It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also.

Resistance is the protest of those who hope, and hope is the feast of the people who resist.

There is an alternative to war. It's staying in bed and growing your hair.

The foes from whom we pray to be delivered are our own passions, appetites, and follies; and against these there is always need that we should war.

They be marching hand in hand, like going to war.

But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

If you try to assert wisdom before people have themselves walked it, be prepared for much resistance, denial, push-back, and verbal debate.

A twinkle lit his eyes. "And I'll tell you this, my bonny lass, I'm not of a mind to let you go either. Not without a good fight." She smiled at his brogue and at the mischievous gleam in his expression. "But if it's a fight you're wantin'"—he winked—"then you've come to the right man, my lady. Because I won't be lettin' you go without one.

A man rejects God neither because of intellectual demands nor because of the scarcity of evidence. A man rejects God because of a moral resistance that refuses to admit his need for God.

What God says is best, is best, though all the men in the world are against it.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.