resistance to evil Quotes

Evil has only the power we give it.

Yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly.

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.

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

In innocence there is no strength against evil, said Sparrowhawk, a little wryly. But there is strength in it for good.

Evil grows and bears fruit, which is understandable, because it has logic and probability on its side and also, of course, strength. The resistance of tiny kernels of good, to which no one grants the power of causing far-reaching consequences, is entirely mysterious, however. Such seeming nothingness not only lasts but contains within itself enormous energy which is revealed gradually.

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.

Satan stations more devils on monastery walls than in the dens of iniquity, for the latter offer no resistance.

Brimstone once told me that to stay true in the face of evil is a feat of strength.

When you resolve to become pious, the devil in your nature cries out at you, "Tread not those paths, O confused one; distress and poverty will overcome you. You will be despised, let down by friends, you will regret it." Dread of the devil has bound their souls; the cries of the devil are the drover of the damned; the call of the Lord is a guardian of the saints.

Evil is a matter of choice. Those people who have been victimized and refuse to imitate their oppressors are in my mind the greatest heroes we have.

We headed to hell for heaven sakes, well Imma levitate...make the devil wait.

I don't believe in the elimination of evil. But I believe in fightin' against evil.

Frequent and violent temptations were a proof that the citadel of the soul had not fallen and that the devil raged to make it fall.

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.

The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God.

I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again. When I see an act of evil I don't accomodate, I don't accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere. I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.

All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word.

Resolve not to be overcome by evil, but to combat evil with good.

Those who won't accept evil never get anything good.

Evil lives in a pit. If you want to fight it – you must climb down in the slime to do so.

It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.

Since one Satan is one too many for me, I would not multiply him.

There is no such way to be even with the devil and his instruments, for all their spite against us, as by doing what good we can wherever we be come.

Once evil is individualized, becoming part of everyday life, the way of resisting it also becomes individual. How does the soul survive? is the essential question. And the response is: through love and imagination.