I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology and we should resist the temptation which sometimes scientists give in to to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science.

There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.

I respect only those who resist me but I cannot tolerate them.

Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race.

I found enormous opposition to my religion. It's like if you want to strengthen your biceps you lift heavy weight as heavy as you can handle and work your muscles against resistance until it grows strong. I had to do that with my religion.

Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why we're here: We're here to suffer. I believe in a higher power that compassionately allows suffering for us as a race to grow and mature.

Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can.

The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance pain torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

There are two ways of attaining an important end force and perseverance the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so.

The so-called peace path is not peace and it is not a substitute for jihad and resistance.

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it by resistance to evil buy it by compromise with evil.

A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.

Stupidity is something unshakable nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it it is of the nature of granite hard and resistant.

But such is the irresistable nature of truth that all it asks and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.

As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.