Quotes About Rebellion Against God

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. Sin is rebellion against God.

Billy Graham

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

James MacDonald

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. But our deepest difficulties cannot be resolved merely on a narrowly intellectual plane. Our deepest difficulty is sin, rebellion against God. We have desires in our hearts that resist the Bible's views and what God has to say. We want to be our own master.

Vern Sheridan Poythress

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

Dallas Willard

#11. Homosexual practice is an example on a horizontal plane of our vertical rebellion against God.

Kevin DeYoung

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

J. Vernon McGee

#13. 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.

A.W. Tozer

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

Francis Schaeffer

#15. Acknowledge that there is a defect in human nature, a built-in waywardness that comes from man's rebellion against God.

Billy Graham

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. Submission to the Scriptures is submission to God. Rebellion against the Scriptures is rebellion against God

Kevin DeYoung

#19. From that time on the parish priest began to show signs of senility that would lead him to say years later that the devil had probably won his rebellion against God, and that he was the one who sat on the heavenly throne, without revealing his true identity in order to trap the unwary.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#20. The atonement was God's extending favor to people who deserved not favor but wrath. The atonement was God's bridging the awful "Grand Canyon" of sin to reach people who were in rebellion against Him. And He did this at infinite cost to Himself by sending Jesus to die in our place.

Jerry Bridges

#21. Sin is the insurrection and rebellion of the heart against God; it turns from Him, and turns against Him; it takes up arms against God.

Richard Alleine

#22. I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It's still my symbol of rebellion
against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others' ideas.

Johnny Cash

#23. In our instinctive rebellion against pain, we are children again, and demand an active will to wreak our vengeance on.

George Eliot

#24. Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

Benjamin Franklin

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

John Hagee

#26. Grace is the love of God shown to the unlovely. It is God reaching downward to people who are in rebellion against him.

Jerry Bridges

#27. Is all anger sin? No, but some of it is. Even God Himself has righteous anger against sin, injustice, rebellion and pettiness.

Joyce Meyer

#28. Prayer is crucial in evangelism: Only God can change the heart of someone who is in rebellion against Him. No matter how logical our arguments or how fervent our appeals, our words will accomplish nothing unless God's Spirit prepares the way.

Billy Graham

#29. Some of your children's rebellion against your spiritual lifestyle might be a necessary step in their finding an authentic relationship with God. But beware: If they find it, it might look quite different from what you've always thought it should be.

Tim Kimmel

#30. Leaders do not choose, rather they respond to God choosing them. Thus, the first responsive step of leadership is of utmost importance. It is an act of rebellion against the society of the spectacle - It is to relinquish a life of many options so that you can receive God's one option.

Mark Sayers

#31. People lift their hand to rebel against the Most High only to find that their rebellion is unwitting service in the wonderful designs of God.

John Piper

#32. Sin is wrong, not because of what it does to me, or my spouse, or child, or neighbor, but because it is an act of rebellion against the infinitely holy and majestic God.

Dave Harvey

#33. Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God.

Orson Pratt

#34. Prayer is in essence rebellion - rebellion against the world in its fallenness. Prayer is the undying refusal to accept as normal what is pervasively abnormal. It is the refusal of every agenda, every scheme, every interpretation that is at odds with the norm as originally established by God.

David G. Wells

#35. The first sin was rebellion, idolatry, treason, and pride, all rolled into a single bite. Both Adam and Eve made a conscious choice to rebel against their Creator and live on their own terms. And we imitate their decision every time we choose our desires over God's.

Francis Chan

#36. The Bible teaches that Satan is the author of sin. Sin is the reason we have afflictions, including death. All of our problems and our suffering are a result of man's rebellion
against God. But God has provided a rescue in His Son.

Billy Graham