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• If you’re listening to this, congratulations! You survived Doomsday. I’d like to apologize straightaway for any inconvenience the end of the world may have caused you. The earthquakes, rebellions, riots,tornadoes, floods, tsunamis, and of course the giant snake who swallowed the sun—I’m afraid most of that was our fault. Carter and I decided we should at least explain how it happened.

  Rick Riordan

  Congratulations, Earthquakes, Snakes

  Rick Riordan (2012). “The Serpent's Shadow (The Kane Chronicles Book 3)”, p.9, Penguin UK

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• The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.

  Oscar Wilde

  Perfect, Personality, Notes

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1038, GENERAL PRESS

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• Paul taught that religions evolved because man did not honor the true God. Because of rebellion, they "exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of the corruptible man and birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures." One characteristic of idolatry is that it always confuses the creature with the creator.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Men, Animal, Bird

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• To will the obligatory in relation to death is to fall in line with the major immutable cycles of Nature, especially human nature, and to understand that (whether or not there is a purpose or meaning to life or a life of the spirit beyond the life of the body) no one, absolutely no one, escapes being finite and mortal. And knowing this, and then to accept it, to will it, and not to be in an unnecessary state of angst or rebellion or terror over it.

  Edwin S. Shneidman

  Fall, Knowing, Purpose

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• The believer who feels the agony caused by rebellion will grow to become the best intercessor.

  Max Anders

  Agony, Grows, Feels

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• It was the disobedience and rebellion of the Jews, God's chosen people, to their covenantal responsibility to serve only the one true God, Jehovah, that gave rise to the opposition and persecution that they experienced beginning in Canaan and continuing to this very day.

  John Hagee

  Responsibility, People, Jehovah

  John Hagee (2011). “Earth's Final Moments”, p.5, Charisma Media

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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 Against God

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• Nonconformity is an empty goal, and rebellion against prevailing opinion merely because it is prevailing should no more be praised than acquiescence to it. Indeed, it is often a mask for cowardice, and few are more pathetic than those who flaunt outer differences to expiate their inner surrender.

  William H. Whyte

  Differences, Goal, Acquiescence

  William H. Whyte (2013). “The Organization Man”, p.10, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• Beauty is a rebellion against time.

  Milan Kundera

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• I don't believe in rushing and saying this is done and over with. That form of rebellion doesn't make sense to me. I've always attempted to familiarize myself with the traditions, and consider that a responsibility of the artist.

  Twyla Tharp

  Believe, Responsibility, Artist

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• Still the mind smiles at its own rebellions.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Mind, Stills

  Robinson Jeffers, Tim Hunt (2001). “The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers”, p.399, Stanford University Press

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• Moses lifting up his wand, and dividing the Red Sea, and Pharaoh in his chariot overwhelmed with the waters. This motto: "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God."

  Benjamin Franklin

  4th Of July, Sea, Tyrants

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• The quest for slowness, which begins as a simple rebellion against the impoverishment of taste in our lives, makes it possible to rediscover taste.

  Carlo Petrini

  Food, Simple, Quests

  Carlo Petrini (2007). “Slow Food Nation: Why Our Food Should be Good, Clean, and Fair”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• The greatest expression of rebellion is joy.

  Joss Whedon

  Expression, Joy

  Joss Whedon's acceptance speech for "Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog" at the Creative Art Emmys, www.youtube.com. September 2009.

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• . . . this oligarchy of sex, which makes fathers, brothers, husbands and sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters of every household - which ordains all men sovereigns, all women subjects, carries dissension, discord, and rebellion into every house of the nation.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Daughter, Mother, Brother

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• The Southern rebellion was largely the outgrowth of the Mexican war. Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions. We got our punishment in the most sanguinary and expensive war of modern times.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  War, Punishment, Mexican

  Ulysses S. Grant, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Stephen Crane, Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Modern Library Civil War Bookshelf 5-Book Bundle: Personal Memoirs, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Red Badge of Courage, Jefferson Davis: The Essential Writings, The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.45, Modern Library

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• Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin; the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover; he only beats the water for another's net.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Giving, Water, Ruins

  Michel de Montaigne, Antoine JAY (1842). “The Complete Works of Michael de Montaigne; Comprising; the Essays, Translated by Cotton; the Letters; the Journey Into Germany and Italy, Now First Translated; a Life by the Editor; Notes: ... Critical Opinions; ... the Éloges of MM. Jay and Villemain; a”, p.46

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• The world needs something stronger than any possible rebellion against its peace. In other words it needs a federal world government embodying a new conception of human life as one whole.

  H. G. Wells

  World Government, Stronger, Needs

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• When your thoughts and opinions become intellectual gods in rebellion against the Word of God, you are in idolatry.

  John Hagee

  Intellectual, Opinion, Word Of God

  John Hagee (1989). “Being Happy in an Unhappy World”

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• The joyful news for anyone who desires to be rid of the consequences of past poor choices is that the Lord sees weaknesses differently than He does rebellion. Whereas the Lord warns that unrepented rebellion will bring punishment, when the Lord speaks of weaknesses, it is always with mercy.

  Richard G. Scott

  Past, Punishment, Choices

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• If you're openly living in unrepentant sin, whatever it may be, not just homosexuality, adultery, fornication, premarital sex between heterosexuals, whatever it may be, I believe that's walking in open rebellion to God and to Jesus Christ. I would not characterize that person as a Christian because I do not think the Bible would characterize them as a Christian.

  Chris Broussard

  Christian, Jesus, Sex

  "Chris Broussard, ESPN Reporter, Calls Being Gay An ‘Open Rebellion To God’". www.huffingtonpost.com. April 29, 2013.

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• Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll is easy. True christianity…that's rebellion.

  Alice Cooper

  Sex, Rocks, Drug

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• There are those who insist that it is a very bad thing to question God. To them, “why?” is a rude question. That depends, I believe, on whether it is an honest search, in faith, for His meaning, or whether it is the challenge of unbelief and rebellion.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Believe, Rude, Challenges

  Elisabeth Elliot (2006). “On Asking God Why: And Other Reflections on Trusting God in a Twisted World”, p.18, Revell

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• The idea that God will pardon a rebel who has not given up his rebellion is contrary both to the Scriptures and to common sense.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Ideas, Common Sense, Rebel

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• The idea that God will pardon a rebel who has not given up his rebellion is contrary both to the Scriptures and to common sense. How horrible to contemplate a church full of persons who have been pardoned but who still love sin and hate the ways of righteousness. And how much more horrible to think of heaven as filled with sinners who had not repented nor changed their way of living.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Hate, Thinking, Ideas

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