Quotes about Resistance

The normal Christian Life is not supposed to be an exhausting wrestling match with a dead man, but is an abundant, joy-filled life with God, salted with an occasional season of strong resistance from our archenemy.

We cannot be tempted with something we have no desire for.

When believers refuse to listen to the devil, however, he becomes a powerless pawn of God's divine purposes. I

Even the idyllic garden of Eden was a war zone. The command to rule and subdue put God's image bearers on high alert that fierce resistance lay ahead.

There is a Destiny which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature.

It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honour, his religion, his soul, and lay the foundation for that empire's fall or its regeneration.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful. It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain. It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also.

Resistance is the protest of those who hope, and hope is the feast of the people who resist.

There is an alternative to war. It's staying in bed and growing your hair.

The foes from whom we pray to be delivered are our own passions, appetites, and follies; and against these there is always need that we should war.

They be marching hand in hand, like going to war.

But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat.