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.
Sometimes we want to have growth without challenges and to develop strength without any struggle. But growth cannot come by taking the easy way. We clearly understand that an athlete who resists rigorous training will never become a world-class athlete. We must be careful that we don't resent the very things that help us put on the divine nature.
All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.
But that's the problem with love - it acts on you, works through you, resists your attempts to control.
Reality is what resists.
Everyone's mind wanders, without doubt, and we always have to start over. Everyone resists or dislikes the thought of or is too tired to meditate at times, and we have to be able to begin again.
Bullfighting has some of the elements of a sport or contest, and in the United States most people think of it as a sport, an unfair sport. If you're in Spain or Mexico it's absolutely not a sport; it's not thought of as a sport and it's not written about as a sport. It has elements of public spectacle, but then so does, for example, the Super Bowl. It has elements of a deeply entrenched, deeply conservative tradition, a tradition that resists change, as you pointed out.
I know My God commands, whose power no power resists.
Two basic rules of life are: 1) Change is inevitable. 2) Everybody resists change.
The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy.
Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.
Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.
