She could be serious as well as humorous, and frequently expressed her hopes and ideals, as a way
of resisting the evil she knew was rising outside the annex: «I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.»
As nonviolent ways
of resisting evil spread and as non-oppressive ways of governing increase, we can «stand up and raise our heads, because our redemption is drawing near.»
The whole history of constitutional government is a commentary on the excellence
of resisting evil, and when one cheek is smitten, of smiting back and not turning the other cheek also.
Not exact matches
Bush emerged from a tour
of the Yad Vashem memorial calling it a «sobering reminder» that
evil must be
resisted, and praising victims for not losing their faith.
He said «You have heard it said by them
of old time... (referring to the old testament), but I say unto you...» Such as «
resist no
evil,» «turn the other cheek.»
They were not confronted by the choice
of safety by conforming to
evil or danger by
resisting it.
What motivated these German anti-Nazis to
resist the powerful Hitler regime is an important object lesson for more precisely locating the roots
of the moral
evil of Nazism by understanding the source
of its antitheses (malum privatio boni est).
Jesus certainly did not kill and probably did not whip the moneychangers, but he clearly
resisted their
evil in a dramatic act
of civil disobedience.
But in the absence
of such means, the tradition
of just war views armed conflict as an appropriate way to
resist evil, protect innocent lives and restore just social relationships.
It seems to me that Jesus» own actions show that a quietist interpretation
of his command not to
resist one who is
evil (Matt.
Only God can provide the inner strength to
resist the temptations
of the
Evil One.
Stay close to Jesus, the author and finisher
of your faith,
resist the devil, turn away from
evil, do the good that Jesus and Paul encouraged believers to do, maintain your faith in God, who justifies you and you should be fine.
yet they themselves «sinned» before they knew the difference between Good and
Evil... Or as you are trying to twist it — judgment of good and evil God must be immoral, if it punishes innocent people for sins they do not understand and could not res
Evil... Or as you are trying to twist it — judgment
of good and
evil God must be immoral, if it punishes innocent people for sins they do not understand and could not res
evil God must be immoral, if it punishes innocent people for sins they do not understand and could not
resist.
He
resisted also the temptation to depict opponents as wholly
evil while casting oneself and one's allies as the «children
of light.»
In one sense, Jesus» ethic was so demanding as to break the hearts
of all who would follow him: Sell all you have and give to the poor,
resist not one who is
evil, love your enemy, take no heed for the morrow.
But the
evils of this world, so far as it is given us to discern them, are to be
resisted, not merely endured.
To those who quote sections
of the Koran that say «slay the infidels» and think that this shows that Islam teaches violence, I say — those things are metaphors for
resisting evil within oneself within one's own mind,
resisting anything that turns one away from God.
It takes formidable faith and devotion to
resist the
evils of one's age, and it is to the history
of Christian asceticism — especially, perhaps, the apophthegms
of the Desert Fathers — that all Christians, whether married or not, should turn for guidance.
And all I can think
of is «Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons
of God» and «do not
resist an
evil person.
Eph 6:13 Therefore, take up the full armor
of God, so that you will be able to
resist in the
evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm.
5) Does our life together honor Jesus, those who have gone before us, and those among us who are: Renouncing assumed privilege, conscientiously
resisting evil, striving for justice and peace, bringing hope to those Jesus called the least
of his sisters and brothers?
On the other hand, this vision also functioned to
resist what were deemed to be the
evils of colonial and mercantile interests.
Some
of the most widely quoted sayings in the Sermon on the Mount, and the ones most consistently violated, are the commands (Mt 5:38 - 42) to turn the other cheek, to give the cloak when deprived
of the coat, to go two miles when compelled to go one, to refuse no request for a gift or a loan, to offer no resistance to an
evil man, as recent translations read where the KJV says «
resist not
evil.»
To a certain extent, Christianity could
resist these kinds
of evil structures; so it was not a denial
of other religions, but the denial
of evil practices which were exploitative, oppressive and dehumanizing.
Therefore, take up the full armor
of God, that you may be able to
resist in the
evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm.
If they forget the source
of their power, if they rebel against God, if they no longer act as God's deputies, if instead
of rewarding good conduct and punishing
evil conduct they do the reverse, they must be
resisted.
Yet at the same time, by always insisting on the inadequacy
of philosophy to explain
evil, they
resist any tendency to «explain
evil away» or «neutralize» it by a greater good, and thereby render
evil in our world terribly real to us.
It is to
resist despair, to
resist giving in to the terrible prices
of the struggle — the loss
of friends, the stubbornness
of evil, the inevitable weariness — and to
resist giving up hope when early victories become clouded by defeat, the way becomes difficult, and the goal seems ever more distant.
Even in the face
of the worst
evil ever committed — the slaughter
of the innocent Lamb
of God — Jesus did not
resist, but said, «Father forgive them.»
There is no negative consequence in terms
of eternity to encouraging people to maintain their faith in Jesus and
resist evil and stand firm against the wiles
of the devil until we are called home.
It is not required
of Christian love to bear all things when
evil ought to be
resisted, or to believe all things when false ideas, beliefs, or rumors are circulated.
Are you like some sort
of Superman who can
resist the magical hypnotic persuasive power
of the
evil Jews?
First
of all, we may say that in our personal lives we are called upon to
resist the powers
of death, disease, and
evil.
There is, to use a phrase
of C. H. Dodd, a «fundamental wrongness» in human life, in which every living man is inescapably involved; a «reprobate character,» a tendency toward
evil, which no man can successfully
resist.
At the heart
of von Hildebrand's essays are three beliefs: the need for Christians to guard against
evil; the willingness
of believers to
resist it; and the obligation
of the Church to uphold the teachings
of Christ, regardless
of the situation.
Describing himself «as one who lived and suffered through the dark days
of the Nazi regime in Germany,» the German - born pontiff said it was «deeply moving... to recall how many
of your fellow citizens sacrificed their lives, courageously
resisting the forces
of that
evil ideology.»
If she was able to touch the human being slumbering under the surface
of «Prime
Evil,» could she
resist being drawn into sympathy with him and then into excusing his behavior?
Because Jesus did
resist evil, not by the sword but by deeds
of love and mercy, the Christian pacifist believes that the followers
of Jesus are called to resistance by the same methods.
Citation
of the passage, «Do not
resist one who is
evil.
Until that time, Communists had disdained «bourgeois morality» and insisted that the only moral good was to advance the progress
of Communism, and
evil was to
resist it.
To put it somewhat differently, the biblical and patriotic gestures
of his Letter and famous speeches allow him to conjure an atmosphere
of love and loyalty — love
of God, love
of neighbor, loyalty to country, loyalty to place — even as he spoke forcefully about the need to
resist evil.
Even when taunted with the charge that this is mere wishful thinking, the Christian knows otherwise and in this trust finds confidence to
resist all manner
of earthly tyranny and
evil.
Most
of us know in our souls that we have no intention
of fulfilling Jesus» incredible demands: sell all,
resist not the
evil man or woman, take no heed for the morrow, leave one's family, bear the cross.
«
Resist not
evil,» «Love your enemies,» these are saintly maxims
of which men
of this world find it hard to speak without impatience.
And it has everything to do, I suggest, with four themes that arise from the modern expression
of Ockhamite nominalism: the deterioration
of the idea
of freedom into willfulness, the detachment
of freedom from moral truth, an obsession with «choice,» and the consequent inability to draw the most elementary moral conclusions about the imperative to
resist evil.
He was subsequently sent to South Africa, as a missionary, where he spent seven challenging years,
resisting the «
evil and iniquitous system
of apartheid,» many years before its eventual fall.
To
resist victimization by means
of counterviolence would be to reinforce the very
evil that sacrifice seeks to contain.
He has proven himself able to
resist the temptations that lead to sin and its
evil consequences: pride in human self - sufficiency, idolatry, doubt
of God's promises.
Part
of me admires the movie for wanting to truly establish a relationship, but part
of me
resists such efforts because I know they're all just part
of the set - up: Once she's gone, he'll have to find the
evil - doers, whether he and the girl were bosom buddies or not; that's just how movies work.
Description: Ten years after Episode I, Padme Amidala (Natalie Portman), now a senator,
resists the creation
of a Republic Army to combat an
evil separatist movement.