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Quotes About Resist

I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I've learned to resist that.
~ David Byrne
Sitting next to Olivia Newton-John, I was like, 'Do not sing one song from Grease.' That's all I was telling my brain at all times: 'Do not sing Hopelessly Devoted. Don't do it.'
~ Caroline Rhea
Strike read how Chiswell the corrupt capitalist had been murdered by the Russian mafia after failing to pay back interest on some seedy, illegal transaction, while Chiswell the defender of solid English values had been dispatched by vengeful Islamists after his attempts to resist the rise of sharia law.
~ Robert Galbraith
But He gives more grace. Therefore He says: "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble." – James 4:6
~ Robert J. Morgan
For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied.
~ Robert K. Massie
suffer. If you don't do what we
~ Lee Child
Torneranno. È sempre difficile resistere alla tentazione di tornare, non è vero?
~ Alessandro Baricco
James, Chapter Four, seventh verse… 'Submit yourself therefore to God, wherefore he saieth resist the Devil and he will flee from you.'
~ Douglas Hensley
One of the most pernicious errors that has gotten abroad in the Christian community is the error of sentimentalism - the view that evil is to be evaded, rather than the more robust Christian view that it is to be conquered. The Christian believes that evil is there to be fought, the dragon is there to be slain. The sentimentalist believes that evil is to be resented.
~ Douglas Wilson
That great, mighty current of evolution which is advancing the life of everything in creation is simply invincible - no one can resist it.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
The three classic ways in which the Devil tempts us are with a threat, a promise or a seduction.
~ Paulo Coelho
Perhaps death represents the severing of the living organism's connection with the orderly quantum realm, leaving it powerless to resist the randomizing forces of thermodynamics.
~ Jim Al-Khalili
She has read LOTR, and I don't know if she read it identifying with all of the evil people and hoping the good ones wouldn't resist their temptations, but I know she has read it because the first time I read it, it was her copy. This proves that just reading it isn't enough. After all, the devil can quote scripture.)
~ Jo Walton
Giles, if you were teasing about teaching me how to kiss, I'll never forgive you." "Perish the thought." Attractive self-mockery twisted those full lips. "How the devil can I resist turning you into another man's dream lover?
~ Anna Campbell
Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the body is weak. MATTHEW 26:41
~ Anne Graham Lotz
But should it matter what we do as long as we use our strength courageously and lead a life without desperation to the end? Isn't it wrong to escape, make a detour and be lost, all of which have led me here to the farthest-flung edge of the world? Wouldn't I have had a good courageous life if only I had been able to resist sickness and fear? Will I be made to face the consequences just because I had nothing to counter a nameless and agonizing desperation?
~ Annemarie Schwarzenbach
There is a legend. And to protest is daft.
~ Peter O'Toole
Dissatisfaction began to grow so great in Parker that there was no containing it outside of a tattoo. It had to be his back. There was no help for it. A dim half-formed inspiration began to work in his mind. He visualized having a tattoo put there that Sarah Ruth would not be able to resist—a religious subject.
~ Flannery O'Connor
What I do is, I fight.
~ Nick Diaz
It's very easy to unite a party around opposition or wanting to get the White House back. That's a unifying message, and you're seeing the Democrats uniting around being the party of 'no' and the party of 'resist.'
~ Ronna McDaniel
Sometimes you have to resist working on your strengths in favour of your weaknesses. The decathlon requires a wide range of skills.
~ Daley Thompson
Those who operate through the Holy Spirit are more equipped to resist temptation.
~ Monica Johnson
Everyone deals with temptation. It's just there.
~ Andy Grammer
I can't resist temptation of any kind.
~ Prue Leith