Quotes about Opposition

have had to come to grips with the fact that people have lied and will lie about me; they will rip a few sentences out of context, twist a few passages, and make me sound like I believe something I don't because they need something to be angry about and oppose.

God is radically for people. He wants everyone to come to a knowledge of the truth (1 Timothy 2:4). As his followers, we also must be for everyone, even if we oppose what they're doing. If we must live and work with toxic people, our call is to make sure their toxicity doesn't become ours. We don't treat them as they treat us. We don't offer evil in exchange for evil. We love. We serve. We guard our hearts so that we are not poisoned by their bad example.

Sideways force can be broken though by straight force. Straight force can be stopped by sideways force.

Not everybody is going to agree with your dream. I'm sure you've had border bullies in your life as you moved into your career. And what we don't want to do is focus upon them.

As a reward for their efforts, however, those early Christians were beaten, stoned to death, thrown to the lions, tortured and crucified. Every conceivable method was used to stop them from talking.

As I've heard my old mentor Tony Campolo say, "If we were to set out to establish a religion in polar opposition to the Beatitudes Jesus taught, it would look strikingly similar to the pop Christianity that has taken over the airwaves of North America.

Ignatius of Lyon said this in the second century: "Christianity is not a matter of persuasive words. It is a matter of true greatness as long as it is hated by the world.

It is time to pick a side.Either we stand with the gun lobby or we join the president and stand up to them.

Do not expect consistency. Everything is a contradiction of everything else. Nothing exists but contradictions.

If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive?

You must force yourself to consider opposing arguments. Especially when they challenge your best loved ideas.

From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.