Quotes about Resistance

Why should anyone be shattered by the thought of hell? It is not compulsory for anyone to go there. Those who do, do so by their own choice, and against the will of God, and they can only get into hell by defying and resisting all the work of Providence and grace. It is their own will that takes them there, not God's.

I have come to think that care of the soul requires a high degree of resistance to the culture around us, simply because that culture is dedicated to values that have no concern for the soul.

Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Oh, Adam's sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good!

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

The Indians' insistence on clinging to their customs had to be the work of Satan there was no other explanation which is why the friars went out to hunt down and lasso the deserters and then whipped their doctrine of love and forgiveness into them.

Even a genius cannot completely resist his Zeitgeist, the spirit of his time.

How base a thing it is when a man will struggle with necessity! We have to die.

Resistance causes pain and lethargy. It is when we practice acceptance that new possibilities appear.

'Mean to' don't pick no cotton.

Men are like stone jugs - you may lug them where you like by the ears.

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.