Brief Overview - Rebel: Do you identify as a self-sufficient personality, actively shaping your own reality without the need of others? Autonomously doing “what I want when I want”, without the need or desire of Higher Authority. Are you a bit of a “rebel”? To find out why being “independent” from your Creator, might not be in your long-term best interest, - Click - on buttons below (Complete Overview or "Display by Category/All" or Author Name)
The resurrection declared that Jesus was not the ordinary sort of political king, a rebel leader, that some had supposed. He was the leader of a far larger, more radical revolution than anyone had ever supposed. He was inaugurating a whole new world, a new creation, a new way of being human.
- N. T. Wright (PhD)
Being a Christian means being a rebel like Jesus. But not as a rebel against God, but against the ways of the world which is driven by evil. And yes, evil does exist.
- Chris D. Cisions
There is no doubt that God will never be wanting to us, provided that he finds in us the humility which makes us worthy of his gifts, the desire of passing them, and the prompitude to co-operate industriously with the graces he gives us.
- St. Ignatius of Loyola
There is no greater love story. The Judge of the universe chased after those who rebelled against Him. People made themselves God’s enemies by rejecting His rule and following their own desires. Yet God so loves His “enemies” that He sent His Son to pay the penalty for their crimes. God’s wrath was satisfied as Jesus hung on the cross.
- Francis Chan
If we rebel against the God who created us, theres not much left to rebel against. And maybe thats the point.
- Craig D. Lounsbrough
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
- John Wooden
Drinking beer is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough call. That's rebellion.
- Alice Cooper
In the U.S., the self-made independent citizen is revered by a society known for rebelling against the British King. Extending this practice to God will eventually be our/your downfall.
- Chris D. Cisions
Jesus is not respectable or nice in the sense of being placid or uncontroversial. He is not necessarily a good citizen. Jesus is wildly and prophetically subversive, because beyond our affluent comfortable suburbs, not all is right. And something has to change.
- Craig Warren Greenfield
Pride is the central citadel of independence of God.
- Oswald Chambers
Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.
- Oscar Wild
We love Jesus as a baby on Christmas, and Jesus risen from the grave on Easter, but somehow we miss Jesus the man, the teacher, the sage, the rebel, the subversive King, the local hero, the neighborhood friend.
- Hugh Halter
The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
- H. G. Wells
A creature revolting against a creator is revolting against the source of his own powers“including even his power to revolt. It is like the scent of a flower trying to destroy the flower.
- C. S. Lewis
There is no greater love story. The Judge of the universe chased after those who rebelled against Him. People made themselves Gods enemies by rejecting His rule and following their own desires. Yet God so loves His enemies
- Francis Chan
By the cross we, too, are crucified with Christ; but alive in Christ. We are no more rebels, but servants; no more servants, but sons.
- Frederic William Farrar
Pauls secret joy was that God took him as a blatant rebel against Jesus Christ, and made him a captive”and that became his purpose.
- Oswald Chambers
The beginning of mens rebellion against God was, and is, the lack of a thankful heart.
- Francis Schaeffer
Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.
- C. S. Lewis
We are rebels at war with God. We cannot make peace with Him until we lay down our rebellion.
- Derek Prince
When the Bible talks about sin it is not just referring to the bad things we do. It's not just lying or lust or whatever the case may be-it is ignoring God in the world he has made; it's rebelling against him by living without reference to him.
- Timothy Keller (PhD)
The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
- Samuel Butler
Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.
- Miguel de Unamuno
Pride is like bad breath. Everyone knows you have it, except you.
- Jim Swaney
Remember the soldier in the Civil War who wore a Rebel jacket and Union trousers”he was shot both in the front and the back! You must choose which side youre on! You are either a servant to Jesus Christ or a slave to Satan! The choice is yours.
- John Hagee
Obedience unites us so closely to God that in a way transforms us into Him, so that we have no other will but His. If obedience is lacking, even prayer cannot be pleasing to God.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
If you really want to be a rebel, read your Bible, because no one is doing that. Thats rebellion. Thats the only rebellion left." (Music Lyric)
- Lecrae
Sin is blatant mutiny against God, and either sin or God must die in my life.
- Oswald Chambers
When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity.
- Dale Carnegie
Pride makes us esteem ourselves; vanity makes us desire the esteem of others.
- Hugh Blair
Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church.
- Pope Francis
I willingly believe that the damned are, in one sense, successful rebels to the end; that the doors of hell are locked on the inside.
- C. S. Lewis
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.
- Blaise Pascal
Vanity is at the bottom of almost all, may we not say, of all our sins. We think more of distinguishing than of saving ourselves.
- Hannah More
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.
- John Calvin
Jesus was a revolutionary, who did not become an extremist, since he did not offer an ideology, but Himself. He was also a mystic, who did not use his intimate relationship with God to avoid the social evils of his time, but shocked his milieu to the point of being executed as a rebel. In this sense he also remains for nuclear man the way to liberation and freedom.
- Henry Nouwen
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