Quotes About Resist

The Palestinians were offered two options: 1) to accept life in an Israeli open prison and enjoy limited autonomy and the right to work as underpaid laborers in Israel, bereft of any workers' rights, or 2) resist, even mildly, and risk living in a maximum-security prison, subjected to instruments of collective punishment, including house demolitions, arrests without trial, expulsions, and in severe cases, assassinations and murder.

to accept life in an Israeli open prison and enjoy limited autonomy and the right to work as underpaid laborers in Israel, bereft of any workers' rights, or 2) resist, even mildly, and risk living in a maximum-security prison, subjected to instruments of collective punishment, including house demolitions, arrests without trial, expulsions, and in severe cases, assassinations and murder.

What the hell are you tryng to do? She gave him an innocent stare. Why, have a conversation. I suppose you're out of practice. He glared,narrow-eyed, then turned away. I'm going for a walk, he muttered. Lovely. Gennie slipped her arm through his. I'll go with you. I didn't ask you, Grant said flatly, stopping again. Oh. Gennie batted her eyes. You're trying to charm me by being rude again. It's so difficult to resist.

For nothing [...] is more heavenly than to resist and to yield; to yield and to resist.

I suppose she's right. It's like a metaphor for life: No one wants an ornery old goat, but we can't resist opening the door ayway. We can't keep from hoping.

Leigh did what any sane female faced with such an e-mail would do: deleted it to resist the temptation of replying, cleared her trash to resist the temptation of recalling it, and then called tech support to restore all her recently deleted e-mails. (Chasing Harry Winston)

The problem with temptation is that you may not get another chance.

I used to suppose that certain evils could never befall a being in possession of a sound mind; that true virtue supplies us with energy which vice can never resist; that it was always in our power to obstruct, by his own death, the designs of an enemy who aimed at less than our lives.

I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.

Living in a fallen world, you will have temptations and struggles—including the urge to give up or to resist God's Word. But the good news is that you don't need to live with a spirit of inadequacy. You are covered with Jesus' identity. This means that when the Father looks at you, He sees Christ's strengths, His perfection, and His uncompromising goodness. And friend, that's all you ever really need.

Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle

Health... is not so much a state, but a force: the power to resist and overcome threats to one's well-being.

The individualities in the crowd who might possess a personality sufficiently strong to resist the suggestion are too few in number to struggle against the current. At the utmost, they may be able to attempt a diversion by means of different suggestions. It is in this way, for instance, that a happy expression, an image opportunely evoked, have occasionally deterred crowds from the most bloodthirsty acts.

Faith is born out of suffering, and suffering is faith's most powerful contradiction. This is the Christian dilemma. The only meaningful Christian response is to resist unjust suffering and to accept the painful consequence of that resistance.

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I think that dwelling on other people's perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that.

I am well aware that there are prisoners of conscience in the Soviet Union, including some who have said they have chosen to resist the law because of religious reasons.

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

The moments like these, the passing doubts, were the temptations that caught you if you were not careful.

Better come with me before your eyes make promises your stomach can't keep.

I can resist anything except temptation.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.

Without exception. It's easy to feel hopeless in the face of the difficult issues that we face every day—how could one person effectively resist anything so much larger than herself? Once we stop acting alone, we have a chance for positive change. To protest is to stop and say that you object, to resist is to stop others from going along without thinking and to build alternatives is to give everyone new choices.

If we admit instrumental musick in the worship of God, how can we resist the imposition of all the instruments used among the ancient Jews?—yea, dancing as well as playing, and several other Judaic actions? or, how can we decline a whole rabble of church-officers, necessary to be introduced for instrumental musick, whereof our Lord Jesus Christ hath left us no manner of direction?