Quotes About Resistance

Day after day I sat with the truth of Psalm 23, letting it burrow its way into my soul. From 1 Peter 5:8, I knew that a major tactic of the Devil was to prowl around my life. So maybe I couldn't stop the Devil from prowling around my table, but in Jesus' name I definitely did have the choice whether I allowed the Enemy to sit down.

as soon as you eat the fruit and hit guilt, shame, frustration, the Enemy changes roles. He shifts from being the enticer and promiser to becoming the accuser and the condemner.

There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell 'em.

What I really resent is that my graduates are not more different from his. For all my emphasis on the humanities and his on God, we both turn out stockbrokers!

He was utterly incapable of resisting the maneuvers of the mealy-mouthed scoundrel that the Neapolitan Vincentian, Bugnini,77 a man as bereft of culture as he was of basic honesty, soon revealed himself to be. Even

We shall have lost something vital and beyond price on the day when the state denies us the right to resort to force...

They call them terrorists, I call them freedom fighters.

We got there in stages because, while you can force anything down the throat of an organization, if people don't buy into the logic, the change won't stick.

What use is Order without Chaos to challenge its rule? And by the same standard, what lies ahead for us if nothing opposes our ways?

There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions.

One of the first affirmations to use is: "I am willing to release the NEED for the resistance, or the headache, or the constipation, or the excess weight, or the lack of money or whatever." Say: "I am willing to release the need for. . ." If you are resisting at this point, then your other affirmations cannot work.

Impatience is only another form of resistance. It is resistance to learning and to changing. When we demand that it be done right now, completed at once, then we don't give ourselves time to learn the lesson involved with the problem we have created.

We give our power to others and use that excuse as our resistance to changing.

Be aware that where you DO NOT WANT TO CHANGE is exactly the area where you NEED to change the most. "I am willing to change.

Impatience is only another form of resistance. It

Impatience is only another form of resistance. It is resistance to learning and to changing. When

If you think of the hardest thing for you to do and how much you resist it, then you're looking at your greatest lesson at the moment. Surrendering

Our actions often show our resistance. For instance: Changing the subject Leaving the room Going to the bathroom Being late Getting sick Procrastinating by: doing something else doing busy work wasting time Looking away, or out the window Flipping through a magazine Refusing to pay attention Eating, drinking, or smoking Creating or ending a relationship Creating breakdowns; cars, appliances, plumbing, etc.

We often assume things about others to justify our resistance. We make statements such as: It wouldn't do any good anyway. My husband/wife won't understand. I would have to change my whole personality. Only crazy people go to therapists. They couldn't help me with my problem. They couldn't handle my anger. My case is different. I don't want to bother them. It will work itself out. Nobody else does it.

We have ideas about ourselves that we use as limitations or resistance to changing. We are: Too old. Too young. Too fat. Too thin. Too short. Too tall. Too lazy. Too strong. Too weak. Too dumb. Too smart. Too poor. Too worthless. Too frivolous. Too serious. Too stuck. Maybe it's just all too much.

This form of resistance shows up in denial of the need to do any changing. Things like: There is nothing wrong with me. I can't do anything about this problem. I was all right last time. What good would it do to change? If I ignore it, maybe the problem will go away.

La impaciencia no es más que otra forma de resistencia: es la resistencia a aprender y a cambiar.

Notre plus grande erreur fut de n'avoir pas planté le pieu au cœur du vampire : la finance.

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