Resisting Quotes

175 quotes by 151 authors

We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. It surmounts or removes all obstacles, overcomes every resisting force and… — Edward McKendree Bounds
Can anything be more absurd than keeping women in a state of ignorance, and yet so vehemently to insist on their resisting temptation? — Vicesimus Knox
Instead of resisting any emotion, the best way to dispel it is to enter it fully, embrace it and see through your resistance. — Deepak Chopra
Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight. But the enormities of the times in which I have… — Thomas Jefferson
Come back to square one, just the minimum bare bones. Relaxing with the present moment, relaxing with hopelessness, relaxing with death, not resisting the fact… — Pema Chodron
You cannot resist something to which you grant no reality. The act of resisting a thing is the act of granting it life. When you… — Neale Donald Walsch
The fundamental idea of these pylons, or great archways, is based on a method of construction peculiar to me, of which the principle consists in… — Gustave Eiffel
When I do things my way, I exhaust pleasure very quickly. It is not that Christianity has failed to teach me how to delight in… — Ravi Zacharias
The history of liberty is the history of limitations on the power of government, not the increase of it. When we resist, therefore, the concentration… — Woodrow Wilson
...God has made provision for our holiness. Through Christ He has delivered us from sin's reign so that we now can resist sin. But the… — Jerry Bridges
The project you are most resisting carries your greatest growth. — Robin Sharma
The era of resisting big government is never over. — Paul Gigot
Freedom comes not from resisting truth, but from applying it. — D. Todd Christofferson
The key to happiness: You may speak of love and tenderness and passion, but real ecstasy is discovering you haven't lost your keys after all.… — Rajneesh
There has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutional law than that, in criminal cases, it is not only the power and duty… — Lysander Spooner
I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding… — George Bernard Shaw
When you start, the world of publishing seems like a great cathedral citadel of talent, resisting attempts to let you inside. It isn't like that… — Alan Garner
It is quite proper to resist and attack a system, but to resist and attack its author is tantamount to resisting and attacking oneself, for… — Mahatma Gandhi
My temptation is emotional, and resisting will further my needed weight loss and strengthen my character. Furthermore, nothing tastes as good as thin feels. — Stephen Covey
I will not cede more power to the state. I will not willingly cede more power to anyone, not to the state, not to General… — William F. Buckley, Jr.

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