Rebellion Against God Quotes

• The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

  Albert Camus

  Freedom, Badass, Bad Ass

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• Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Tyrants, Conservative, Rebellion

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• Whenever you see confusion, you can be sure that something is wrong. Disorder in the world implies that something is out of place. Usually, at the heart of all disorder you will find man in rebellion against God. It began in the Garden of Eden and continues to this day.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Heart, Men, Garden

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• The beginning of men's rebellion against God was, and is, the lack of a thankful heart.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Heart, Men, Rebellion

  Francis August Schaeffer (1982). “The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian view of spirituality”

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• Sin is not weakness, it is a disease; it is red-handed rebellion against God and the magnitude of that rebellion is expressed by Calvary's cross.

  Oswald Chambers

  Weakness, Disease, Red

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• A rebellion against God, even as believers, is fueled by the toxic fumes of unbelief.

  James MacDonald

  Toxic, Rebellion, Believer

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• If one evil thought, if one evil word, if one evil action, deserves eternal damnation, how many hells, my friends, do every one of us deserve, whose whole lives have been one continued rebellion against God!

  George Whitefield

  Evil, Damnation, Action

  George Whitefield (1904). “Selected Sermons of George Whitefield: With an Introduction and Notes by the Rev. A.R. Buckland ...”, p.883, CCEL

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• Submission to the Scriptures is submission to God. Rebellion against the Scriptures is rebellion against God

  Kevin DeYoung

  Submission To God, Scripture, Rebellion

  Albert Mohler, Mark Dever, John MacArthur, David Platt, John Piper (2016). “Unashamed of the Gospel”, p.102, B&H Publishing Group

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• I was very confused. I didn't understand the difference between rebellion against God and rebellion against the system that's not God.

  Lauryn Hill

  Confused, Differences, Rebellion

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• It is the principle of sin, rebellion against God and His truth which has brought about birth defects and other destructive natural occurrences.

  E.W. Jackson

  Birth Defects, Principles, Sin

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• "Spirituality" wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.

  Dallas Willard

  Spirituality, Misery, Rebellion

  Dallas Willard, Kevin Harney, Sherry Harney (2010). “The Divine Conspiracy: Jesus' Master Class for Life : Participant's Guide”, p.46, Harper Collins

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• It is blasphemous rebellion against God thatmarks the Antichrist as the final and logical expression of humanism.

  J. Vernon McGee

  Expression, Finals, Rebellion

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• Sin and death and suffering and war and poverty are not natural—they are the devastating results of our rebellion against God. We long for a return to Paradise—a perfect world, without the corruption of sin, where God walks with us and talks with us in the cool of the day.

  Randy Alcorn

  War, Long, Perfect

  Randy Alcorn (2011). “Heaven”, p.78, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Stiff-necked America, in flagrant rebellion against God, is indulging a caterwauling orgy of sinful maudlin cinementality on the 5th anniversary of God's 9/11 vengeance upon this evil nation for its sodomite sins!

  Fred Phelps

  America, Evil, Vengeance

  "9/11: God's Wrath Revealed". WBC Video News, September 8, 2006.

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• Classical theology defines sin as 'rebellion against God.' The answer is not incorrect as much as it is shallow and insulting to the human being. Every person deserves to be treated with dignity even if he or she is a 'rebellious sinner'.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Insulting, Answers, Dignity

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• The Lord commands the wife to be submissive. Refusal to submit to the husband is therefore rebellion against God Himself. Submission to the husband is a test of her love for God as well as a test of love for her husband. The wife then must look upon her submission to her husband as an act of obedience to Christ and not merely to her husband.

  Wayne Mack

  Husband, Wife, Tests

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• Job's avoidance of rebellion against God has nothing to do with God being good or wise or anything like that; it's strictly because God is so powerful, and you don't fight something when you are so much weaker than that which you would fight.

  George C. Williams

  Wise, Jobs, Powerful

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• The City's going to be very very beautiful! Its going to be like a beautiful beautiful park in some places, and there in the lower level where the river flows right through the City there's going to be these beautiful trees growing on both sides, fruit trees with 12 different kinds of fruit, a different kind every month, think of that!-And leaves that'll be able to heal the people outside the City that are still sin-sick, and sick of their disobediences and their rebellion against God. We're going to be able to take those leaves outside and heal them!

  David Berg

  Beautiful, Thinking, Cities

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• Heaven's brightest and best-loved angel, who was cast out for inspiring a rebellion against God. Having lost Heaven, Lucifer and his rebel angels vowed to continue fighting here on earth." "I don't understand why he had to fight. He was already in heaven." "True. But he wasn't content to serve. He wanted more." "He had all he could ask for, didn't he?" Ann asks. "Exactly." Miss Moore states. "He had to ask. He was dependent upon someone else's whim. It's a terrible thing to have no power of one's own. To be denied.

  Libba Bray

  Angel, Fighting, Missing

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