Quotes about Resistance

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

If you try to assert wisdom before people have themselves walked it, be prepared for much resistance, denial, push-back, and verbal debate.

A twinkle lit his eyes. "And I'll tell you this, my bonny lass, I'm not of a mind to let you go either. Not without a good fight." She smiled at his brogue and at the mischievous gleam in his expression. "But if it's a fight you're wantin'"—he winked—"then you've come to the right man, my lady. Because I won't be lettin' you go without one.

A man rejects God neither because of intellectual demands nor because of the scarcity of evidence. A man rejects God because of a moral resistance that refuses to admit his need for God.

What God says is best, is best, though all the men in the world are against it.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.

When a king sets himself to bandy against the highest court and residence of all regal powers, he then, in the single person of a man, fights against his own majesty and kingship.

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.

Let no man pretend to fear sin that does not fear temptation also! These two are too closely united to be separated. He does not truly hate the fruit who delights in the root.

share any mental or physical opposition that you are experiencing.

Many Christians in the Western church attempt to live as though the devil does not exist, having