Quotes about Resistance
Love demands freedom. It always has, and it always will. We are free to resist, reject, and rebel against God's ways for us. We can have all the hell we want.
— Rob Bell
What's disturbing, then, is when people talk more about hell after this life than they do about hell here and now. As a Christian I want to do what I can to resist hell coming to earth: poverty, injustice, suffering--they're all hells on earth and as Christians we oppose them with all of our energies.
— Rob Bell
You cannot bring a fresh, new word about human flourishing and expect the old, established systems of oppression and power to stand by passively. Or, as Jesus put it, "You can't put new wine into old wineskins.
— Rob Bell
It's possible to resist the very growth and change and expanding consciousness that God desires for you by appealing to your religious convictions.
— Rob Bell
What we see in Jesus's story about the rich man and Lazarus is an affirmation that there are all kinds of hells, because there are all kinds of ways to resist and reject all that is good and true and beautiful and human now, in this life, and so we can only assume we can do the same in the next.
— Rob Bell
Your days in power are numbered because the deepest forces of the universe are on the side of the oppressed, the underdog, and the powerless
— Rob Bell
All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word.
— Martin Luther
The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn.
— Martin Luther
Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.
— Ben Carson
To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.
— Mahatma Gandhi
the largest locomotive in the world can be held in its tracks while standing still simply by placing a single one-inch block of wood in front of each of the eight drive wheels. The same locomotive moving at 100 miles per hour can crash through a wall of steel-reinforced concrete five feet thick. That
— Zig Ziglar
Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.
— Deepak Chopra