Quotes about Resistance
How can I make it clear to him that what appears easy and attractive will drag him down into the depths, depths where there is no comfort to be found, no friends and no beauty, depths from which it is almost impossible to raise oneself?
— Anne Frank
The point was to lean toward goodness, to resist less, to pray for our enemies. The point was to have a spiritual awakening of any sort that would help us live more often in kind awareness.
— Anne Lamott
My elderly priest friend Terry says, "Don't try harder—resist less.
— Anne Lamott
The Two Reasons Seeing the Future Is So Difficult Attachment to an outcome combined with the resistance and fear of change.
— Seth Godin
Temptations in the life of faith are not accidents; each temptation is part of a plan, a step in the progress of faith.
— Oswald Chambers
The fullest application of ahimsa does make life impossible.
— Mahatma Gandhi
We must treat arrest as the normal condition of the life of a non-co-operator.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The passages also offer an assurance that God has such resistance under control and will ultimately overwhelm it.
— John Goldingay
You can't fight a battle you don't think exists.
— John Eldredge
And all this to be done on pain of death, and confiscation of house and goods, unless within the limited time they turned Roman catholics.
— John Foxe
Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.
— John Knox
The absolute gut-level truth was that he had no desire for God to interrupt him in this way.
— Elizabeth Musser