Two basic rules of life are: 1) Change is inevitable. 2) Everybody resists change.
But that's the problem with love - it acts on you, works through you, resists your attempts to control.
History resists an ending as surely as nature abhors a vacuum; the narrative of our days is a run-on sentence, every full stop a comma in embryo. But more: like thought, like water, history is fluid, unpredictable, dangerous. It leaps and surges and doubles back, cuts unpredictable channels, surfaces suddenly in places no one would expect.
Nature always resists the artist at the beginning.
All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.
The mind is not a machine, it is an idea. And the Idea resists all attempts to control it.
True friendship resists time, distance and silence.
Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.
Cancer can be attacked directly by metabolic enzymes and then be assisted by the enzyme diet programme. The second greatest cancer breakthrough of the 20th century is the metabolic organic effect on malignant tumours of correcting the body fluid pH to a non-acidic pH 7. 1 to 7. 5. A neutral pH 7. 0 resists cancer formation. An acid body fluid pH of 6. 44 and below permits tumours to biochemically become malignant. At pH 7. 5 cancer may become inactive; at 8. 5 tumours may disintegrate.
What resists, persists.
Friendship has splendors that love knows not. It grows stronger when crossed, whereas obstacles kill love. Friendship resists time, which wearies and severs couples. It has heights unknown to love.
He who willingly accepts chastening by affliction is not dominated by evil thoughts against his will; whereas he who does not accept affliction is taken prisoner by evil thoughts, even though he resists them.
Thought is not consecrated unless it resists trends.
The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy.
What is this love that endures decades, passes on sleep, and resists death to give one kiss? Call it agape love, a love that bears a semblance of God's.
For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.
I know My God commands, whose power no power resists.
Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.
Television has never known what to do with grief, which resists narrative: the dramas of grief are largely internal - for the bereaved, it is a chaotic, intense, episodic period, but the chaos is by and large subterranean, and easily appears static to the friendly onlooker who has absorbed the fact of loss and moved on.
Each generation exercises power over its successors: and each, in so far as it modifies the environment bequeathed to it and rebels against tradition, resists and limits the power of its predecessors.
