Quotes about Resistance
We pray, 'lead us not into temptation'. Do we then lead ourselves into temptation?
— Thomas Watson
An idle person is the devil's tennis ball, which he bandies up and down with temptation until at last the ball goes out of play.
— Thomas Watson
When men have hearts of stone and foreheads of brass—it is a sign that the devil has taken full possession of them.
— Thomas Watson
They who pray that they may not be led into temptation, must not lead themselves into temptation. 2.
— Thomas Watson
Better is that temptation which humbles me, than that duty which makes me proud.
— Thomas Watson
The last thing the devil wants you to do is be an obedient Christian.
— Joyce Meyer
And my number-one spiritual practice is trying to live in the present moment … to resist projecting into the future, or lamenting past mistakes … to feel the real power of now. That, my friends, is the secret to a joyful life.
— Oprah Winfrey
What I know for sure is that there is no strength without challenge, adversity, resistance, and often pain.
— Oprah Winfrey
Every woman is a rebel.
— Oscar Wilde
Because a lot of the time ever when I say anything about how the world is goin to hell in a handbasket people will just sort of smile and tell me I'm gettin old.
— Cormac McCarthy
He found Reese asleep in a wrecked car behind the cabins. Suttree shook him gently awake into a world he wanted no part of. The old man fought it.
— Cormac McCarthy
Don't worry when you meet opposition for obeying God. Worry when you don't have opposition, because you're probably not obeying God.
— Craig Groeschel