Quotes about Resistance

A "god" whose will is resisted, whose designs are frustrated, whose purpose is checkmated, possesses no title to Deity, and so far from being a fit object of worship, merits naught but contempt.

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

it seemed to him as if he were beholding in a magic panorama a future where he himself was sliding into that pleasureless yielding to the small solicitations of circumstance, which is a commoner history of perdition than any single momentous bargain.

Oh, mother," said Maggie, in a vehemently cross tone, "I don't want to do my patchwork." "What! not your pretty patchwork, to make a counterpane for your aunt Glegg?" "It's foolish work," said Maggie, with a toss of her mane,—"tearing things to pieces to sew 'em together again.

Many are friends to the success of reformation, not to reformation.

When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace.

Every time you defeat a temptation, you become more like Jesus!

From my boyhood I have had an intense and overwhelming conviction that my real vocation lay in the direction of literature. I have, however, had a most unaccountable difficulty in getting any responsible person to share my views. - Cyprian Overbeck Wells: A Literary Mosaic

There comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression.

The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose.

The brazen throat of war.