Quotes about Resistance
Some sort of perversity in our souls makes us not want, get away from, the very thing we want. We have to fight against that.
— DH Lawrence
We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.
— Charles Stanley
[T]ruth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it. Ignorance may deride it. Malice may distort it. But there it is.
— Winston Churchill
He is not pestered by the banal desires common to all men; he is tempted by the greatest, the most momentous, messianic temptations; they must be met and overcome in the desert where Israel experienced them and later succumbed.
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
One man alone can't defeat the forces of evil, but many good people coming together can.
— Harold S. Kushner
There had been incidents meant to remind them that they were being watched. Yet there had also been more arrests and darker threats and cruel floggings. The religious authorities had no intention of letting the group continue unchallenged. When any possible reason for an offense could be generated, they took full advantage.
— Janette Oke
Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
— St. Jerome
God often does His best work in us when He catches us by surprise and introduces a change that is completely against our own desire.
— Charles Swindoll
The best work usually meets the strongest opposition.
— DL Moody
Every true work of God has had its bitter enemies - not only outside, but also inside - just as in the days of Nehemiah.
— DL Moody
The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.
— Victor Hugo
If an injustice requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the government machine.
— Henry David Thoreau