Quotes About Adversary

My job is to be your loyal opposition.

Fighting someone who was intimately aware of your internal state of mind made it an interesting extra challenge.

If this were a movie I'd be the bad guy.

The devil tempts us to bring out the worst in us, but the Father tests us to bring out the best in us.

The patriots of 1776 had far more to fear from Benedict Arnold than they did King George. An enemy easily identified is much less formidable than one who marches in the uniform of an ally.

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

To see your enemy and know him is part of the complete education of man.

Hillary Clinton hates Julian Assange, she is just an adversary of internet freedom.

He who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

There is no stronger bond of friendship than a common enemy.

When you are lying in bed angry with your backs turned towards each other, imagine Satan sleeping in the space between you.

Fearfulness is not of God. The Holy Spirit is not one who makes us fearful; rather He gives us spiritual power, a heart full of love, and a mind that is sound and understanding. Fear comes from another spirit. Satan and his demons are quick to author fear. The apostle Peter calls us to: "Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: whom resist stedfast in the faith" (1 Peter 5:8–9a KJV).

For the first time in living memory, we liberals have no ideological adversary worthy of the name. So it is crucial that we look beyond Trump.

Every educated person is a future enemy.

And it wasn't like the company was afraid of GrayCris, but they had to teach them a lesson. (The lesson was: if you're going to fuck with something bigger and meaner than you, use a quick targeted attack and then run away really fast. (This is the way I always try to operate, too.)

Every educated person is a future enemy.

Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.

Whenever the devil harasses you, seek the company of men or drink more, or joke and talk nonsense, or do some other merry thing. Sometimes we must drink more, sport, recreate ourselves, and even sin a little to spite the devil, so that we leave him no place for troubling our consciences with trifles. We are conquered if we try too conscientiously not to sin at all. So when the devil says to you: do not drink, answer him: I will drink, and right freely, just because you tell me not to.

May your horse kick stones in your enemy's teeth,

To defeat your adversary and bury him is one thing. To dress him in a jester's costume and have him perform for you is another, more crushing blow. He survives to give witness ot his own powerlessness

For Poe, no greater intellectual pleasure could be found than in matching wits with a capable adversary. Of course he greatly enjoyed perpetrating his own hoaxes—a diddle would be no diddle, after all, without a grin—but he also loved to expose the hoaxes of others, taking them apart to reveal their inner workings.

Note, The devil, though he is an enemy to all saints, is a conquered enemy. The Captain of our salvation has defeated and disarmed him; we have nothing to do but to pursue the victory.

That list of yours… the enemy of my enemy doesn't have to be my friend, but it can still hurt my enemy.

He wanted to look at the face of his enemy - or at least upon his ashes.