Quotes about Against
But I have a few things against you, because some of you hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stumbling block before the Israelites so they would eat food sacrificed to idols and commit sexual immorality.
- Revelation 2:14
Hey, Carpathia, you're not the risen king; Hey, Carpathia, you don't rule anything. We'll worship God until we die And fight against you, Nicolae. Hey, Carpathia, you're not the risen king.
- Jerry B. Jenkins
If you'd have said Evangelical in 1957, most people wouldn't know what you were talking about. And then, they'd be against it.
- Billy Graham
The wicked know that if the ill they do be of sufficient horror that men will not speak against it. That men have just enough stomach for small evils and only these will they oppose.
- Cormac McCarthy
He works in us and with us, not against us or without us; so that his assistance is an encouragement to the facilitating of the work, and no occasion of neglect as to the work itself.
- John Owen
There are many powers in the world, for good or for evil. Some are greater than I am. Against some I have not yet been measured. But my time is coming.
- JRR Tolkien
Power is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice is love correcting everything that goes against love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
But woe is thee, thou torrent of human custom! Who shall stand against thee?
- St. Augustine
Jesus is teaching a kingdom perspective on how to deal with those who have sinned against us. Since the kingdom is a world of reconciliation, kingdom people are to forgive.
- Scot McKnight
The top two lines on every prophet's job description look like this: Speak openly and clearly about what God is for. Speak openly and clearly about what God is against. The third and fourth lines look like this: I [God] am with you. Have courage. (But you may have to duck or die.)
- Scot McKnight
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that God, now, is about to establish a kingdom on this earth, based upon brotherhood and peace. And the white man is against brotherhood, and the white man is against peace.
- Malcolm X
Because history is only an aggregate of personal hostilities, personal prejudices, personal blindness and irrationality, there are times when we have to live against it.
- Anais Nin