Quotes about Resistance

When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh.

Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out by keeping away the food and fuel which is their maintenance and life.

If you don't have any enemies in life you have never stood up for anything.

Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.

The devil is no longer looking for an open door in your life. He will take any crack you give him.

Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life.

Lady, I'm like, a kryptonite member.

We may feel that a particular habit 'isn't too bad,'but continually giving in to that habit weakens our wills against the onslaughts of temptation from other directions.

We are to count on this fact that we are dead to sin's rule, that we can stand up to it and say no. Therefore we are to guard our bodies so that sin does not reign in us. So we see that God has made provision for our holiness. Through Christ He has delivered us from sin's reign so that we can now resist sin. But the responsibility for resisting is ours.

In many ways, our sinful flesh acts as a mole. It is constantly responding to the allurements of the world and the enticements of the devil, and is constantly seeking to collaborate with them. And so we are very vulnerable spiritually. The

For the LORD your God had made his spirit stubborn and his heart obstinate in order to give him into your hands, as he has now done" (Deuteronomy 2:30).

We might agree with what the Bible says about a certain sin, "and even make a commitment of sorts to put it out of our lives…..We would like to be rid of that sin, and even pray to God to take it away, but are we willing to say no to it?