Quotes about Resistance
Sin is protean. It is a cancer that keeps mutating, and just when you think you have killed off one form, it turns out a deadlier strain yet is threatening your heart.
— John Ortberg
I don't know what to do. I only know that it's taken me years to understand that life was pushing me in a direction I didn't want to go in.
— Paulo Coelho
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
— Edmund Burke
They can do anything we can't stop them from doing.
— Joseph Heller
No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.
— Pablo Picasso
We are evidently no friends of Satan. Like the kings of this world, he wars not against his own subjects. The very fact that he assaults us should fill our minds with hope.
— JC Ryle
Surrender is not a Ranger word. Fine. Let the battle begin.
— Susan May Warren
We're always at war with good and evil in this world. No one escapes it. It's how we see it, how we recognize it that engages us in battle.
— Susan May Warren
But every time you yield to the temptation, the easier it becomes to yield again and the more difficult it becomes to resist the next time.
— Napoleon Hill
And God has this funny way of stretching and changing and pushing us toward things we don't want to face. I don't think the past is something we deal with as much as it deals with us.
— Chris Fabry
there was no bad luck in the world but whitepeople. 'They don't know when to stop,' she said, and returned to her bed, pulled up the quilt and left them to hold that thought forever.
— Toni Morrison
schoolteacher didn't take advice from Negroes. The information they offered he called backtalk and developed a variety of corrections (which he recorded in his notebook) to reeducate them.
— Toni Morrison