Quotes about Resistance

When we drift from a deep, intimate companionship with God, we become negative, critical, judgmental and recalcitrant. We resist the repeated overtures of God's love. Neutrality and detached aloofness eventually result. We become respectably unresponsive. It happens to all of us at times. The telltale signs are equivocation, vacillation and pretense.

There is one thing Satan cannot stand and that is to be ignored and slighted. He lives on attention and dies of neglect.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Courage is resistance to fear mastery of fear-not absence of fear.

I started with this idea in my head, "There's two things I've got a right to, death or liberty."

Let death find us as we are building up our matchstick protests against its waves.

Shouldn't we be presenting an alternative to the prevailing culture rather than simply mimicking it? What would a church look like that created space for quietness, that bucked the celebrity trend and unplugged from noisy media, that actively resisted our consumer culture? What would worship look like if we directed it more toward God than toward our own amusement?

The temptation that Jesus resisted in the wildreness [a crown without a cross; worldly glory], many of us, His followers, still long for.

The church works best as a force of resistance, a conscience to society that keeps itself at arm's length from the state. The closer it gets, the less effectively it can challenge the surrounding culture and the more perilously it risks losing its central message.

Most importantly, he countered violence with nonviolence, and hatred with love. "Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred," he exhorted his followers. "We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.

Prayer is a subversive act performed in a world that constantly calls faith into question.

The church works best as a force of resistance, a counterbalance to the consuming power of the state.