Quotes About Resist

The first gift that Adam and Eve received was agency: 'Thou mayest choose for thyself, for it is given unto thee' (Moses 3:17). You have that same agency. Use it wisely to deny acting on any impure impulse or unholy temptation that may come into your mind. Just do not go there, and if you are already there, come back out of it. 'Deny yourselves of all ungodliness' (Moroni 10:32).

Unwinding a habit that you have allowed to entangle you can be difficult. But the power is in you. Do not despair. The Prophet Joseph Smith taught that 'all beings who have bodies have power over those who have not.' You can resist temptation!

We are lived by drives we cannot command, and we are read by works we cannot resist.

But from the first time I met Ame, I was drawn right into her. I couldn't resist her. And I knew it was happening. I knew it wasn't going to come my way again, not in this life. That's when I decided - if I go with her, there'll come a time that I'll regret it. But if I don't go with her, I'll be losing the key to my existence. Have you ever felt that way about something?

You retire, but you're still aching to play. But in order to play, you have to resist certain temptations, and train hard. And I just didn't have the desire to do that any more.

The mind commands the body, and it obeys instantly; the mind commands itself, and is resisted.

For God is unchangeable, and wholly proof against injury. Therefore the vice which makes those who are called His enemies resist Him, is an evil not to God, but to themselves. And to them it is an evil, solely because it corrupts the good of their nature.

What we know as self-consciousness is only our opinion of ourselves, and like any other opinion it comes from outside; it is hearsay, our contribution to public opinion. We must become disobedient to it, resist it, no longer listen to it.

It isn't that the lies are too beautiful to resist. It's that the truth is too hideous to face.

Good gardens often seem to have this quality, of order under a certain amount of pressure, wilderness just barely contained. They make something of the fact that nature seems to resist our forms, turn this fact of fate to good account.

Resist, however peacefully and even in your own home, and heaven help you, no matter what your skin color.

No stony bulwark can resist the love, and love dares what anyone can love.

Grow a garden, give food away, resist the temptation to give into hate, change it up and try peacemaking for once, love your neighbor, love your enemy.

They call them fools, who are unable to resist the slightest chance love might exist.

I try to eat on the healthier side, but baked goods are hard to resist. I just love sweet things.

Away! Away! Tempt me no more insidious love.

I began to feel lighthearted. Don't ever do that; it tempts some dark and evil force abroad in the universe.

To snuff a candle is pleasing. But to finish you, my dear, is to blot out a sun. How could I resist it?

We live in the shadow of crime with the unspoken understanding that we are victims.. of fear, of violence, of social impotence. A man has risen to show us that the power is, ans always has been, in our hands. We are under siege. He's showing us that we can resist.

A bargain is something you can't use at a price you can't resist.

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values — and witnesses.

A bargain is something you can't use at a price you can't resist.

Live a fruitful life. Resist evil. Give more than you take. Help others do likewise. The rest will take care of itself.

So then she had to take it, though still with her defeated protest. It isn't so much your BEING 'right'--it's your horrible sharp eye for what makes you so. Oh but you're just as bad yourself. You can't resist me when I point that out. She sighed it at last all comically, all tragically, away. I can't indeed resist you. Then there we are! said Strether.