Quotes About Resistance

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

There is one thing Satan cannot stand and that is to be ignored and slighted. He lives on attention and dies of neglect.

I have never yet figured out what to do about good advice that you get, and that you know right away would help you, but that you cannot follow.

There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.

Ben hid a wince behind his hand, trying very hard not to think of seventy-year-old Ellie Verstgard rolling around with Mr. Wenner. Despite his best resistance, the image scrolled across his brain and took some of his love for the world with it.

When the people are threatened with tyranny, they must choose either chains or guns.

You must claim America, she said. America will not give itself to you. If you do not claim America, if America is not in your heart, America will throw you into a concentration camp or a reservation or a plantation.

You tried to play the game, okay? But they run the game. You don't run anything. That means you can't change anything. Not from the inside. When you got nothing, you got to change things from the outside.

Always resent, never relent.

We had not chosen to be debased by the French, to be divided by them into an unholy trinity of north, center, and south, to be turned over to the great powers of capitalism and communism for a further bisection, then given roles as the clashing armies of a Cold War chess match played in air-conditioned rooms by white men wearing suits and lies. No,

You tried to play their game, okay? But they run the game. You don't run anything. That means you can't change anything. Not from the inside. When you got nothing, you got to change things from the outside.

Colonies were a pearl choker adorning the alabaster-white neck of the colonizer

The workers of the world have to see that capitalism is only interested in profit, not them, and that it will inevitably reduce them to slave labor as it maximizes profit.

These invaders came to conquer our land and now would never go home.

There was no need for the French to condemn us. So long as we spoke in their language, we condemned ourselves.

Every now and then the government must defend itself against itself.

You know war has already decided to invite us before we think of giving it our invitation card.

Your enemy is not the one who harms you, but the one who makes you evil.

Right mothering meets the child's need. Focusing on what the child should not be draws resistant energy. Pointing out what the child should be feeds self-hatred and struggle.

It is no secret that Christians lack scriptural discernment in most areas of their lives; yet, they continue to resist any doctrinal teaching that will help them remedy the situation. They refuse to hear "what the Spirit [is saying] to the churches" (Revelation 2:7).

The real prayer is your own soul-tending. It's not the writing that needs prayer - it's you. You need to find the center that is still and strengthening. You need to deal with whatever issue is dogging you today, whether it's anxiety about your teenager or resistance to the topic you are trying to write.

If you have writer's block, dig into it. You are resisting something. Something is getting in the way of your creative work. Resistance always means something.

Our foes will provide us with arms.