Quotes About Resistance

All of us resist growth to some extent. It's built in; I'm convinced of it. To paraphrase Tom Hanks's character in the movie A League of Their Own, if growth were easy, everybody would be doing it. But that's what makes it great.

Next, taking him to a very high mountain, the devil showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendour. 'I will give you all these' he said, 'if you fall at my feet and worship me.' Then Jesus replied, 'Be off, Satan! For scripture says: You must worship the Lord your God, and serve him alone.' Then the devil left him, and angels appeared and looked after him.

While he agonized in the Garden of Gethsemane on the eve of his Passion, he resisted the devil's onslaught with the prayer to his Father: "Yet not as I will, but as you will" (Matthew 26:39). Christ is the Lord, and humility is his scepter.

For me, Savannah's resistance to change was its saving grace. The city looked inward, sealed off from the noises and distractions of the world at large. It grew inward, too, and in such a way that its people flourished like hothouse plants tended by an indulgent gardener. The ordinary became extraordinary. Eccentrics thrived. Every nuance and quirk of personality achieved greater brilliance in that lush enclosure than would have been possible anywhere else in the world.

For me, Savannah's resistance to change was its saving grace. The city looked inward, sealed off from the noises and distractions of the world at large. It grew inward, too, and in such a way that its people flourished like hothouse plants tended by an indulgent gardener. The ordinary became extraordinary. Eccentrics thrived. Every nuance and quirk of personality achieved greater brilliance in that lush enclosure than would have been possible anywhere else in the world.

The single word that counted on Wednesday was the one that came from the muzzle of a gun, addressed to somebody on their knees. Better to choose our hour than to accept this. We know each other. We've known each other from the time of Crocodilopolis. [Letter unsent]

He had tried everything, cutting down (many devices), pipes, cigars, even cold turkey. He had quit once in Rome, for seven hours after breakfast, during the last two of which his (first) wife was begging him to take it up again.

You come in all clammed up, defences in depth, alibi-systems long established, delusions full-blown. In order to have a chance of staying sober, or rather of staying dry and becoming sober, you've got to change. Nobody likes to change. What you really want, when you come into hospital, even for the second or third or ninth time, is to stay just who you are and not drink. That's not possible, of course. Jack-Who-Drinks has got to alter into Jack-Who-Does- Not -Drink- And -Likes-It.

leave wizard Henry: at his lectern where he's working on his phantasies: Disperse! and everything goes worse so the world fills with her knees, harmful & fair: a medium where 'Fuck you' comes as no curse but come as a sigh or a prayer.

I am the great terror of the squires, they seem to be seized with a sort of bucolic mania in dealing with me.

What God says is best, indeed is best, though all the men in the world are against it.

The captain of all these men of death that came against him to take him away, was the Consumption, for it was that that brought him down to the grave.

Nothing can hurt you except sin; nothing can grieve me except sin; nothing can defeat you except sin. Therefore, be on your guard, my Mansoul.

Euryphaean, and the music of an instrument called a pianoforte, infinite resistance coil and the sanity glass, and all the inventions that sprang from

not that they may believe against their wills (which would be impossible), but that they may be made willing to believe who were before unwilling to believe.

Indeed in all ages Satan seems to have fought more violently against free justification by faith than against any other teaching, striving to extinguish it and smother it.

All have been blind to the light, deaf to admonitions, and hardened against the commandments.

There is no end and no limit to the obstacles of the man who wants to pursue what is right and at the same time shrinks back from self-denial.

I say therefore that he sins against the Holy Spirit who, while so constrained by the power of divine truth that he cannot plead ignorance, yet deliberately resists, and that merely for the sake of resisting.

Man stands under the devil's power, and indeed willingly

since Satan is always breathing down our necks, and is ready and scheming to plunge us into a thousand perils, we ought to be no less watchful and on our guard.

For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God

It is not an external enemy we dread. Our foe is shut up within ourselves. An internal warfare is daily waged by us.

A busy monk is besieged by a single devil but an idle one is destroyed by spirits innumerable.