Quotes about Opposition

As a reward for their efforts, however, those early Christians were beaten, stoned to death, thrown to the lions, tortured and crucified. Every conceivable method was used to stop them from talking.

The central feature of pride is enmity—enmity toward God and enmity toward our fellowmen. Enmity means "hatred toward, hostility to, or a state of opposition." It is the power by which Satan wishes to reign over us.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

Jesus asked His followers to count the cost carefully, lest they should turn back when they met with suffering and privation. He told His followers that the world would hate them.

Had Satan not set himself in opposition to God . . . there would have been no need for God to send His Son to the cross.

In a country where Christians were looked upon with suspicion and disfavor, a government leader said to me with a twinkle in his eye, "Christians seem to thrive under persecution. Perhaps we should prosper them, and then they would disappear.

Satan is real and is opposed to everything God is doing.

This age is interested in success, not suffering … Our Lord was ridiculed, insulted, persecuted, and eventually killed. In the face of opposition, He went about "doing good.

Jesus told His disciples that the "world," meaning the world system, the political and social order organized apart from God, will despise Christians.

The prophets who spoke to their generations for God did not please and conform; they irritated and opposed.

God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity.

And what is that religion that sanctions, even by its silence, all that is embraced in the 'Peculiar Institution'? If there can be any thing more diametrically opposed to the religion of Jesus, than the working of this soul-killing system - which is as truly sanctioned by the religion of America as are her minsters and churches - we wish to be shown where it can be found.