Quotes about Defiance

Incline Your ear, O LORD, and hear; open Your eyes, O LORD, and see. Listen to all the words that Sennacherib has sent to defy the living God.

I will place it in the hands of your tormentors, who told you: ‘Lie down, so we can walk over you,’ so that you made your back like the ground, like a street to be traversed.”

to a people who continually provoke Me to My face, sacrificing in the gardens and burning incense on altars of brick,

Why do you bring a case against Me? You have all rebelled against Me,” declares the LORD.

They surround her like men guarding a field, because she has rebelled against Me,” declares the LORD.

They grasp the bow and spear; they are cruel and merciless. Their voice roars like the sea, and they ride upon horses, lined up like men in formation against you, O Daughter of Zion.”

this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I will turn against you the weapons of war in your hands, with which you are fighting the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who besiege you outside the wall, and I will assemble their forces in the center of this city.

Although I trained and strengthened their arms, they plot evil against Me.

“We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name,” he said. “Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and are determined to make us responsible for this man’s blood.”

If you're a nobody, if your work has no impact, then it deserves to be praised. If, however, you climb out of that state of mediocrity and are a success, then your defying 'the law' and deserve to be punished.

When I die, bury me standing, because I've spent all my life on my knees!

One of the most aggressive things a human being can do is to go against what he or she believes is nice or pretty.