Quotes About Opposition

What boots it at one gate to make defense,And at another to let in the foe?

My sentence is for open war.

George Devine's disapproval of Fry, Ustinov and John Whiting was almost startling in its bitterness: 'They're all absolute shit.' It was a little breathtaking. I was only accustomed to this kind of throw-away vehemence from myself.

Satan's purpose is to take from you what God has given you.

Sometimes life is your opponent and just showing up is a victory.

Once upon a time, there was a safe, private place to take your controversial stand for Jesus. No more. If you are going to stand, you will be shot at—either figuratively or literally.

When rival worldviews are in play, it is not adaptation that is called for but confrontation: confrontation

Señor Jesús, Tú eres el Mesías, el Rey de Israel. Las naciones se postran ante Ti. Dios lleva al mundo a reconocer que eres digno de adoración. Por tanto, ante cualquier oposición que encuentre, con gozo te atribuyo autoridad y dignidad, y traigo estos regalos para decirte que solo Tú puedes satisfacer mi corazón.

I want you to see persecution and opposition and slander and misunderstanding and disappointment and self-recrimination and weakness and danger as the normal portion of faithful pastoral ministry.

The classic rule of thumb is that if you are an intellectual ideological magazine, you do better in opposition than you do if your views are reflected by people in power.

There will be increasingly widespread and organized efforts to shut down the Rush Limbaughs, Sarah Palins, Glenn Becks and other known conservatives and Christians across the land. Those

I think we've got to go after them root and branch...if we're ever gonna do it, this is the time to do it.

It's wonderful to be hated by idiots.

The love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism.

The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people; and the spirit of liberty, in so far as it resists such attempts, may ally itself locally and temporarily with the opponents of improvement; but the only unfailing and permanent source of improvement is liberty

All but invisible to the outside world, the debate over the direction of the Federated Colored Catholics remains instructive. Most important, it marks the first significant break in the racialism undergirding so much of American Catholicism in the first part of the twentieth century. Both Thomas Turner and John LaFarge opposed discrimination. The debate was how to end it.

Are you the thing you want most, or its' opposite? If I want nothing more than water, is it because I am water or because I have none?

a debate isn't a competition, it's a civil war.

A few years after the Constitution was ratified, Congress passed the Alien and Sedition Acts. These four laws were aimed at suppressing political opposition. Under the presidency of John Adams, this resulted in the prosecution and conviction

And I, a twister, love, what I abhor.

Betrayal means that, faced with opposition or temptation or ridicule, we fail to stand by a commitment to another. It's another instance of that vicious lack of integrity which affects human life and fellowship—we make promises but break them; our word is not our bond; our fidelity is worthless.

Unless God has raised you up for this very thing, you will be worn out by the opposition of men and devils. But if God be for you, who can be against you? Are all of them together stronger than God? O be not weary of well doing!

True loyalty to the Church implies loyalty to the truth. It requires willingness to question rather than readiness to conform. What may seem opposition and dissent at first, will eventually prove to be an active co-operation between the teaching authorities and the theologians towards the one aim of a better-formulated doctrine.

How do you oppose a foe who is wholly irrational and unpredictable—and yet who, out of animal energy and the accident of circumstance, has attained a most frightening power?