Quotes about Opposition

The more closely we see ourselves being watched by our enemies, the more time intent we should be to avoid their slanders.

Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.

People who flush easily become even more agitated when they feel themselves getting hot under the collar, and they quickly lose to their opponents.

Moreover, the papal system has opposed the march of civilization and liberty throughout the world, by denouncing the circulation of the Bible, and the general diffusion of knowledge. Turn to every land where popery predominates, and you will find an ignorant and debased peasantry, a profligate nobility, and a priesthood, licentious, avaricious, domineering and cruel.

It has been said that the lives of the early Christians consisted of persecution above ground and prayer below ground.

The pope. "I defy him, (quoth he), and all his detestable abomination: I will in no wise have to do with him.

I drink to all them that unfeignedly love the Gospel of Christ, and wish for the abolition of popery.

All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; Third, it is accepted as self-evident.

Hence, as John Owen said: Sin's proper formal object is God It hath, as it were, that command from Satan which the Assyrians had from their king: "fight neither with small nor great, save only with the king of Israel," that sin sets itself against. There lies the secret, the formal reason of all opposition to good, even because it relates unto God.... The law of sin makes not opposition to any duty, but to God in every duty.

The Law is used un-lawfully, not when presented as the rule of the believer's life, but when it is opposed to Christ!

Nobody has a cakewalk to become governor.

Many are friends to the success of reformation, not to reformation.