Quotes About Resistance

Coenwulf dealt briskly with these challenges to his rule.

A crucial difference between Æthelred and Alfred, however, is that Alfred fought against his enemies in person.

Alfred had returned with one purpose – to confront and destroy the Danes who were occupying his kingdom

Wilfrid did not go quietly. He protested to the bishops of other kingdoms

and a fierce battle ensued.

Some gaps are caused because as the market approaches a level of support or resistance or a previous high or low, there will be an abnormally large number of stops just outside that area. When those stops get hit, it can cause a sharp move in the market, resulting in the gap.

He beguiled me almost by surprise into doing wrong, then he got me accustomed to having bad thoughts which I had no will to resist—willpower being the only force capable of driving them back to the infernal darkness from which they emerged.

159: To do ought good never will be our task, 160: But ever to do ill our sole delight, 161: As being the contrary to his high will 162: Whom we resist. If then his Providence 163: Out of our evil seek to bring forth good, 164: Our labour must be to pervert that end, 165: And out of good still to find means of evil;

At length from us may find, who overcomes 649: By force, hath overcome but half his foe.

To mortify a sin is not utterly to kill, root it out, and destroy it, that it should have no more hold at all nor residence in our hearts. It is true this is that which is aimed at; but this is not in this life to be accomplished.

A soul under the power of conviction from the law is pressed to fight against sin, but hath no strength for the combat.

sin is always acting, always conceiving, always seducing and tempting.

When sin lets us alone we may let sin alone; but as sin is never less quiet than when it seems to be most quiet, and its waters are for the most part deep when they are still, so ought our contrivances against it to be vigorous at all times and in all conditions, even where there is least suspicion.

There is not a day in our lives in which sin does not either defeat us or is defeated, prevails over us or is prevailed over, and it will be like this as long as we live in this world.

4. When a man fighteth against his sin only with arguments from the issue or the punishment due unto it, this is a sign that sin hath taken great possession of the will, and that in the heart there is a superfluity of naughtiness.

for Owen, circumstances—whether amiable or painful—were not an excuse to stop resisting sin.

Christians are called to wage war against this enemy, knowing that there are only two options: "Be killing sin or it will be killing you."25

To kill sin is the work of living men; where men are dead (as all unbelievers, the best of them, are dead), sin is alive, and will live" (chapter 7). Oh, the pastoral insights that emerge from Owen! As here: If you are fighting sin, you are alive. Take heart.

We, who work every day just to survive, swear on the blood of our ancestors that we will never allow dams across our rivers. We are simple Indians and mestizos, but we would rather die than stand by as our land is flooded. We warn our Colombian brothers: stop working for the construction companies.

A system based on corrupting public figures does not take kindly to public figures who refuse to be corrupted

Rapacious great power is ruthless and vindictive; many of us can't imagine because we're not like that in our lives. John Pilger

They got the Library of Alexandria. They're not getting mine. Bumper sticker (with quote flanked by silhouettes of pistol and rifle)

anti-Trump demonstrations

Having some guy shine his flashlight up my asshole isn't gonna improve my addition," he said.