Quotes about Resistance
When you desire to be most alive to God, you will generally find sin most alive to repel you.
- Charles Spurgeon
No one need fear to listen to the voice of God unless he has already made up his mind to resist it.
- AW Tozer
How is it, Lord, that we are cowards in everything save in opposing thee?
- Teresa of Avila
If thou wilt fly from God, the devil will lend thee both spurs and a horse.
- Thomas Adams
If you will tell me when God permits a Christian to lay aside his armour, I will tell you when Satan has left off temptation.
- Charles Spurgeon
Undoubtedly, prayer requires a living faith in God. Successful satyagraha is inconceivable without that faith.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Resisting tyranny is obeying God.
- Thomas Jefferson
A satyagrahi has no other stay but God, and he who has any other stay or depends on any other help cannot offer satyagraha.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Even like as St. Paul was converted, just so are all others converted; for we all resist God, but the Holy Ghost draws the will of mankind, when he pleases, through preaching.
- Martin Luther
The devil flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the Word of God.
- Martin Luther
The enemy of the human race...invented a means never before heard of, by which he might hinder the preaching of God's word of Salvation to the people.
- Pope John Paul II
God can never make us wine if we object to the fingers He uses to crush us with.
- Oswald Chambers