resisting evil Quotes

The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat.

Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.

The great triad of enemies for Christian growth contain the world, the flesh, and the devil.

In the cruel and terrible time in which our generation has been condemned to live on this earth, we must never make peace with evil. We must never become indifferent to others or undemanding of ourselves.

I don't see much use in general slogans. Sometimes it is worth resisting evil with lesser evil, very commonly in fact.

Merely to resist evil with evil by hating those who hate us and seeking to destroy them, is actually no resistance at all. It is active and purposeful collaboration in evil that brings the Christian into direct and intimate contact with the same source of evil and hatred which inspires the acts of his enemy. It leads in practice to a denial of Christ and to the service of hatred rather than love.

Evil is impotent and has no power but that which we let it extort from us.

Get thee behind me Satan, and push me along. I'm kin to the devil.

Our great Pattern hath showed us what our deportment ought to be in all suggestions and temptations. When the devil showed Him "all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them," to tempt Him withal, He did not stand and look upon them, viewing their glory, and pondering their empire.... but instantly, without stay, He cries, "Get thee hence, Satan." Meet thy temptation in its entrance with thoughts of faith concerning Christ on the cross; this will make it sink before thee. Entertain no parley, no dispute with it, if thou wouldst not enter into it.

We must not be frightened nor cajoled into accepting evil as deliverance from evil. We must go on struggling to be human, though monsters of abstractions police and threaten us.

There are like to be short graces where the devil plays host.

...love triumphs, at least in this life, not by eliminating evil once for all, but by resisting and overcoming it anew every day.

It was important, Dumbledore said, to fight, and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then could evil be kept at bay, though never quite eradicated. . . .

Real non-co-operation is non-co-operation with evil and not with the evil-doer.

I think of it all as a test. This is a moral examination that one has to pass... to stand up against such social evils.

One cannot help the evil thoughts that come, but it is the thoughts we cultivate that make the difference between good or evil. We don't have to open the door to the devil and say, "Make yourself at home."

As you lose your life in the service of Father in Heaven's children, Satan's temptations lose power in your life.

An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it.

Every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor.

We must not believe the Evil One when he tells us that there is nothing we can do in the face of violence, injustice and sin.

Never accept evil as something you must walk with, something you deserve.

Be the first to seek to bring good, do not grow accustomed to evil, but defeat it.

Evil can be got very easily and exists in quantity: the road to her is very smooth, and she lives near by. But between us and virtue the gods have placed the sweat of our brows; the road to her is long and steep, and it is rough at first; but when a man has reached the top, then she is easy to attain, although before she was hard.

Satan will try to use our memory of any previous guilt to lure us back...We must be ever vigilant to avoid his enticements

She wasn't afraid of doing good or of resisting evil. She was merely afraid she might not be able to tell the difference.