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Quotes About Resist

It is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to be resisted.
~ Louisa May Alcott
What was it Oscar Wilde said?" "I can resist everything except temptation.
~ Louise Penny
if sin is Satan's rope by which the soul is bound, how can it resist till it is released from that weakness. Secondly, how could anyone who is acquainted with either reason or grace, believe that a man who is a slave to his own corruption
~ John Bunyan
Mr. Asher, you can resist who you are for only so long. Finally, you just decide to go with fate.
~ Christopher Moore, A Dirty Job
Remove yourself from temptation. Don't even look at something if you know you shouldn't have it.
~ Unknown
Music is such a good way to resist. It keep you strong, it has dignity.
~ Amy Ray
The cardinal rule of abduction is; if someone wants to take you someplace to do terrible things to you, resist.
~ J.A. Konrath
Let us worship on, pray on, praise on, and read on. Let us contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints, and resist manfully every effort to spoil Scriptural worship. Let us strive earnestly to hand down the light of Gospel worship to our children's children. Yet a little time and He that shall come will come, and will not tarry. Blessed in that day will be those, and those only, who are found true worshippers, "worshippers in spirit and truth!
~ J.C. Ryle
Cape Canaveral. The ultimate historic site. And it's underwater. How could they not have noticed what was going on? They went to the Moon, and they couldn't see that the glaciers were melting?" "I'm sure they did," said Alex. "But you know how people are. They're going to resist changing a lifestyle unless the danger is looking them directly in the eye. The glaciers must have seemed like somebody else's problem.
~ Jack McDevitt
The right to pursue happiness sends me and other Americans, even here where we are meant to resist outside temptation, on a hunt for it. If I'm not hungry, I might seek other forms of happiness, or pleasure, which is part of my American birthright, though the most misconceived notion of them or the most difficult to realize; I can pursue several means and ways to be happy, if I am able to forget what makes me habitually sad.
~ Lynne Tillman
But, when to Sin our byast Nature leans, The carefull Devil is still at hand with means. - Ama yanl? Tabiat?m?z günaha meylettiÄŸi zaman Gerekli araçlarla ç?kagelir uyan?k Åžeytan.
~ John Dryden
The Catholic lords intended to join with the Protestants to resist the forfeiture of the rebels
~ John Guy
I like how he ignores me now like I don't even exist. He's still so incredible that it's impossible to resist. I like how he could walk by me in the hallway and not give me another glance. I like how he won't bother giving us a second chance.
~ Unknown
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
~ Mae West
To do ought good never will be our task,   But ever to do ill our sole delight,   As being the contrary to his high will   Whom we resist.
~ John Milton
Lucas smiled back. Bowden projected an effortless charisma and he had to resist the urge to tug at his forelock: "Not close enough. A little closer and she wouldn't be in the Senate—she'd be in a different federal institution altogether.
~ John Sandford
All I could do was to hold on tight to the sides of the chair, and keep myself from sucking his fingers. 'Would
~ Maria McCann
The current of memory carried her along, futher, futher. This time, she didn't resist.
~ Unknown
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it
~ Mae West
Why do some Germans become Nazis, and others resist?' 'You know the answer, darling,' Heidi said, putting her arm around Lola. 'A few are monsters, the rest look away.
~ Unknown
Locke is not only underscoring his earlier point about man's right to resist the illegitimate, arbitrary power of government, particularly relating to his property rights; he is going further—that is, no government, including one established by the consent of the governed, has authority to violate man's inalienable rights.
~ Mark R. Levin
I can resist everything except temptation.
~ Oscar Wilde
Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that the family of believers throughout the world is undergoing the same kind of sufferings.And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast. To him be the power for ever and ever. Amen
~ Unknown
It was his wont to warn them continually that the privilege of living with him in his community brought with it a grave responsibility, for God was Just and would judge them more severely than those who lived in worse ages when it was more difficult to resist evil. He said: "Verily ye are in an age when whoso omitteth one tenth of the law shall be doomed. But there will come an age when whoso fulfilleth one tenth of the law shall be saved.
~ Unknown