If there be no right to rebellion against a state of things that no savage tribe would endure without resistance, then I am sure it is better for men to fight and die without right than to live in such a state of right as this.
No one need fear to listen to the voice of God unless he has already made up his mind to resist it.
Real non-co-operation is non-co-operation with evil and not with the evil-doer.
Satan stations more devils on monastery walls than in the dens of iniquity, for the latter offer no resistance.
And dead an epoch of our existence, which in a world destined to humiliate us was moral light and resistance.
He who finds not opposition from sin, and who sets not himself in every particular to its mortification, is at peace with it, not dying to it.
Those who operate through the Holy Spirit are more equipped to resist temptation.
A man rejects God neither because of intellectual demands nor because of the scarcity of evidence. A man rejects God because of a moral resistance that refuses to admit his need for God.
To be a Jew is an act of the strenuous mind as it stands before the fakeries and lying seductions of the world, saying no and no again as they parade by in all their allure. And to be a writer is to plunge into the parade and become one of the delirious marchers.
An individual's refusal to carry out the criminal acts of his government sets the stage, in the most effective way possible, for the attempt to demonstrate the criminal nature of these acts.
A working knowledge of the devil can be very well had from resisting him.
It is only in some corner of the brain which we leave empty that Vice can obtain a lodging. When she knocks at your door be able to say: "No room for your ladyship; pass on.
Sermons seldom convert sinners; they sometimes goad them into more sin.
You assist an administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil administration never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good man will therefore resist an evil system or administration with his whole soul.
