“I’m not entitled to have an opinion unless I can state the arguments against my position better than the people who are in opposition. I think that I am qualified to speak only when I’ve reached that state.”
Opposition has hurt its thousands. Careless popularity has slain its ten thousands.
—John Newton
That which is born of, or produced by, the Holy Ghost, in the heart or soul of a man when he is regenerate, that which makes him so, is spirit; in opposition to the flesh, or that enmity which is in us by nature against God.
—John Owen
That which is born of, or produced by, the Holy Ghost, in the heart or soul of a man when he is regenerate, that which makes him so, is spirit; in opposition to the flesh, or that enmity which is in us by nature against God.
—John Owen
He that will sorely revenge the least opposition that is or shall be made to him by others, was content to undergo any thing, all things, for believers.
—John Owen
Unless God has raised you up for this very thing, you will be worn out by the opposition of men and devils. But, if God be for you, who can be against you? Are all of them together stronger than God? O be not weary in well doing!
—John Wesley
In spite of all opposition, from nature, from the world, from all the powers of darkness, still fight the good fight of faith, and lay hold on eternal life!
—John Wesley
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
—Albert Einstein
To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.
—Isaac Newton
Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
—Heraclitus
There is something down in the human heart that is so under the power of the devil that men begin to resist you when you preach Christ; but you may preach everything else but that, and there is no opposition.
—D. L. Moody
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.
—John Locke
Christian contentment is opposed to sinful shifting and shirkings to get relief and help.
—Jeremiah Burroughs