Quotes about Rebellion

Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss.

Till pride and worse ambition threw me down Warring in Heaven against Heaven's matchless King:

With ambitious aim against the throne and monarchy of God rais'd impious war in Heav'n and battel proud.

The Holy Spirit is promised of God to be given to us, to do this work (of mortification). The taking away of the stony heart, that is, the stubborn, proud, rebellious, unbelieving heart, is, in general, the work of mortification that we treat of.

So there's nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who's cool hates - and then making it cool.

No one ever got radicalized by being grateful.

I pray for the courage To walk naked At any age To wear red and purple, To be unladylike, Inappropriate, Scandalous and incorrect To the very end.

In short, these rebels punished their families, but only in the traditionally feminine way: they punished themselves.

To have a simple, untroubled faith, you must keep your spiritual innocence. That requires avoiding cynicism and criticism. This is the day of the cynics, the critics, and the pickle-suckers. Criticism is the forerunner of divorce, the cultivator of rebellion, sometimes a catalyst that leads to failure. In the Church, it sows the seed of inactivity and finally apostasy.

One man is an oppressor because many are slaves; let us despise the slaves.

Many men are slaves because one is an oppressor; let us hate the oppressor. Now, however, there is amongst an increasing few a tendency to reverse this judgment, and to say, One man is an oppressor because many are slaves; let us despise the slaves.

Only the man who says no is free