Quotes about Resistance
For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
- Anonymous
But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart.
- Anonymous
God's justice, as Desmond Tutu insisted, is not retributive but restorative. It is natural that many do not understand this, because "God's love, resisted, is felt as wrath.
- Fleming Rutledge
Satan is a powerful adversary who knows you almost as intimately as does the Lord. He attacks through the mind and flesh, trying to separate you from Christ."
- Francine Rivers
Each man is a little war.
- Frank Herbert
Some never participate. Life happens to them. They get by on little more than dumb persistence and resist with anger or violence all things that might lift them out of resentment-filled illusions of security. -Alma Mavis Taraza
- Frank Herbert
I choose to ally myself against any force which brings humiliation upon humankind.
- Frank Herbert
The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance." Yes—I am meeting more resistance lately. I could use a quiet retreat by myself. A
- Frank Herbert
What was it St. Augustine said? she asked herself. "The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance." Yes—I am meeting more resistance lately.
- Frank Herbert
But why not? He deserved it. It took years to take control of this school—to oust the resisters, to implant the sympathizers, to blind the parents to what was happening to their children. It was no small task.
- Frank Peretti
How do we expect change to occur if we are not willing to put on the whole armor of God and fight injustice wherever it raises its ugly head?
- Bernice King
If she could give love to IT perhaps it would shrivel up and die, for she was sure that IT could not withstand love.
- Madeleine L'Engle