Quotes About Resistance

The resistance to praying is like the resistance of tightly clenched fists. This image shows a tension, a desire to cling tightly to yourself, a greediness which betrays fear.

The Sixties were an era of extreme reality. I miss the smell of tear gas. I miss the fear of getting beaten.

I know it's hard for you to allow yourself to feel this. You've gone so long training yourself to block the feelings and emotions out any time someone touches you.

If the devil is sending you thoughts of fear, resist him, stop the thoughts

Fear is the bane of all creatures that bubbles inside us forming rocks of resistence, sucking away all will power to act, think or speak.

Opening your heart is a matter of accepting yourself and life as it is. It's a matter of forgiving yourself and others. It's letting go of all your resistance to the flow of life and the flow of circumstances.

The trouble with going with the flow is, you might wind up getting sucked down the drain.

Today I have a choice. I can resist reality and suffer pain or peacefully accept what I cannot change.

To win against your enemies you have to do the OPPOSITE of what they expect you to do.

If you believe in your heart that you are right, you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time.

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.

The higher the hill, the stronger the wind: so the loftier the life, the stronger the enemy's temptations.

A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

Courage is the key which unlocks your potential, resisting fear which may try to halt your forward movement. Vibrancy in life will happen when you go after life with determination and courage.

The path of least resistance and a life of convenience is 'safe' and comfortable, but won't grow or develop you.

There's someone that wants to change me, for once in my life I'm being challenged.

I'm not tired of challenges. I'm tired of people challenging me for nothing.

My bed always feels more comfortable when I'm being forced to get out of it.

The greatest obstacle, the greatest danger, will not lie outside us, but within. Our willingness to remain who we are rather than become who we can yet be is within us.

To be nobody but yourself in a world doing its best to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human can ever fight and never stop fighting.

The very same substance, yet destined to have completely different effects on me. The same illness can evolve; and a sweet poison comes to be less tolerated when, with the years, the heart's resistance has weakened.