Resistance Quotes - Page 6

• I also understood that God's love shows itself just as well in the simplest soul which puts up no resistance to His grace as it does in the loftiest soul.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Grace, Soul, Doe

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• Stop looking for the path of least resistance and start running down the path of greatest glory to God and good to others, because that's what Jesus, the Real Man, did.

  Mark Driscoll

  Running, Jesus, Real

  Mark Driscoll, Grace Driscoll (2013). “Real Marriage: The Truth About Sex, Friendship, and Life Together”, p.44, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• There is no inherent awakening power in cultural forms that have become dissociated from the wisdom and practicality that gave birth to them. They turn into illusions themselves and become part of the drama of religious culture. Although they can make us happy temporarily, they can't free us from suffering, so at some point, they become a source of disappointment and discouragement. Eventually, these forms may inspire nothing more than resistance to their authority.

  Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

  Religious, Disappointment, Drama

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• EVERYTHING is love, so the only thing that's not love is our resistance to love, is us trying to be separate from the world.

  Jason Mraz

  Love Is, Trying, World

  Interview with Lexi Shapiro, theywillrockyou.com. April 23, 2008.

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• The path of least resistance will never make you proud.

  Tony Robbins

  Proud, Path, Path Of Least Resistance

  Twitter post from May 26, 2016

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• Happiness is equal to work minus resistance.

  Wolfgang Ostwald

  Hard Work, Minus, Equal

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• If anyone has a new idea in this country, there are twice as many people who keep putting a man with a red flag in front of it.

  Prince Philip

  Country, Men, Ideas

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• I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism.

  Oscar Wilde

  Clever, Temptation, I Can

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• If there be no right of rebellion against a state of things that no savage tribe would endure without resistance, then I am sure that it is better for men to fight and die without right than to live in such a state of right as this.

  Roger Casement

  Fighting, Men, Savages

  Sir Roger Casement (1917). “Trial of Sir Roger Casement”, Canada Law Book

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• The horse must understand and accept any demands made by rider without any resistance. Reward the horse each time he does what is asked of him. Never ask for more than he is capable of giving. Make him a COMPANION, and not a slave, then you will see what a true friend he is.

  Nuno Oliveira

  Horse, True Friend, Giving

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• The resistance is the voice in your head telling you to use bullets in your PowerPoint slides...It’s the voice that tells you to leave controversial ideas out of the paper you’re writing, because the teacher won’t like them. The resistance pushes relentlessly for you to fit in.

  Seth Godin

  Teacher, Writing, Ideas

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• I encourage you to be a person who is not afraid of responsibility. In meeting resistance you will build your strength. If you only do what is easy, you will always remain weak.

  Joyce Meyer

  Responsibility, Easy, Weak

  Joyce Meyer (2011). “Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle of Your Mind”, p.180, Hachette UK

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• When resistance no longer serves you, you'll no longer have it.

  John de Ruiter

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• What looks like resistance is often a lack of clarity.

  Chip Heath

  Looks, Clarity

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• Spiritually, compulsory disarmament has made us unmanly, and the presence of an alien army of occupation, employed with deadly effect to crush in us the spirit of resistance, has made us think we cannot look after ourselves or put up a defense against foreign aggression, or even defend our homes and families.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Crush, Home, Army

  Mahatma Gandhi (1930). “Young India”

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• Peace is a certain resistance to the terrible satisfactions of war. It’s a commitment to living with a certain kind of vulnerability to others and susceptibility to being wounded that actually gives our individual lives meaning.

  Judith Butler

  War, Commitment, Giving

  Interview with Jill Stauffer, www.believermag.com. May, 2003.

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• There is no development of character without resistance, there is no growth of spirituality without overcoming.

  David O. McKay

  Character, Adversity, Growth

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• The positive evidence for Darwinism is confined to small-scale evolutionary changes like insects developing insecticide resistance....Evidence like that for insecticide resistance confirms the Darwinian selection mechanism for small-scale changes, but hardly warrants the grand extrapolation that Darwinists want. It is a huge leap going from insects developing insecticide resistance via the Darwinian mechanism of natural selection and random variation to the very emergence of insects in the first place by that same mechanism.

  William A. Dembski

  Want, Firsts, Variation

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• All happiness comes from awareness. The more we are conscious the deeper the joy. Acceptance of pain, non-resistance, courage and endurance - these open deep and perennial sources of real happiness, true bliss.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Pain, Real, Acceptance

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• Acceptance of what is immediately frees you from mind identification and thus reconnects you with Being. Resistance is the mind.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Acceptance, Mind, Identification

  Eckhart Tolle (2001). “Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now”, p.116, New World Library

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• The Shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge, and it therefore, as a rule, meets with considerable resistance. Indeed, self-knowledge as a psychotherapuetic measure frequently requires much painstaking work extending over a long period of time.

  Carl Jung

  Real, Dark, Shadow Work

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• Only love can penetrate all your karmas and resistances and set your heart on fire with the awareness of its true nature.

  Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

  Karma, Heart, Fire

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• The amount of things you can do with a kettlebell is unsurpassed by any other training equipment - dumbbells, resistance machines, free weights.

  Laird Hamilton

  Training, Machines, Weight

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• When you're looking so hard to get on your path, you're putting up resistance that keeps you from finding it.

  Esther Hicks

  Path, Findings, Hard

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• Resistance is a simple concept: power, unjust and immoral, is confronted and dismantled. The powerful are denied their right to hurt the less powerful. Domination is replaced by equity in a shift or substitution of institutions. That shift eventually forms new human relationships, both personally and across society.

  Lierre Keith

  Hurt, Powerful, Simple

  Derrick Jensen, Aric McBay, Lierre Keith (2011). “Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet”, p.208, Seven Stories Press

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