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Worshiping God even amid despair is a way to defy the Adversary and declare our valuing of the good-the best-in life: the Lord! -- Jack W. Hayford
Our Adversary majors in three things: noise, hurry and crowds. If he can keep us engaged in "muchness" and "manyness," he will rest satisfied. -- Richard J. Foster
Meanwhile the Adversary of God and man, Satan with thoughts inflamed of highest design, Puts on swift wings, and towards the gates of hell Explores his solitary flight. -- John Milton
They think virtues are man-made, only exist because they exist, but if no human had ever existed, The Virtues would persist for they hold their being from the very Presence of the Adversary Himself. -- Geoffrey Wood
My adversary is the world of finance. -- Francois Hollande
Beware the wrath of a patient adversary. -- John C. Calhoun
Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle. -- Samuel Johnson
Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary. -- Milan Kundera
In football you have an adversary; in cinema that adversary is yourself. -- Eric Cantona
We have been conditioned to see the passing of time as an adversary. -- Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Our nuclear weapons are meant purely as a deterrent against nuclear adventure by an adversary. -- Atal Bihari Vajpayee
That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary. -- Piers Anthony
We can only win by giving everything and being ready to defeat the adversary with fiery aggression. -- Jurgen Klinsmann
Cancer is such a ruthless adversary because it behaves as if it has its own fiendishly cunning agenda. -- Paul Davies
Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process. -- Thurgood Marshall
Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice. -- Hanoi Hannah
I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary. -- Albert Camus
Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought. -- Martin Heidegger
The proud make every man their adversary by pitting their intellects, opinions, works, wealth, talents, or any other worldly measuring device against others. -- Ezra Taft Benson
My real adversary has no name, no face, no party. It will never be elected, yet it governs - the adversary is the world of finance. -- Francois Hollande
It is not cowardly, quite the contrary, to seek to meet the adversary and know his intentions. However, it is cowardly, shameful and treasonable to lay down arms. -- King Hassan II
I started running 3 miles every morning after throat surgery to remove a cyst last year. The gym used to be my adversary. But that has all changed. Now, I look forward to it every morning. -- Rachael Ray
The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us. -- Michel Foucault
Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due. -- Ambrose Bierce
And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human experience found in Western religions. No Western religion can countenance Freud's view of man. -- Chaim Potok
I'm here today to warn you: I want you to watch out for the adversary. Guard yourself from any spirit of entitlement. Restrain any and all subtle temptation to gain attention or to find ways to promote yourself. -- Charles R. Swindoll
When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion. -- Phyllis McGinley
Those who are preparing for the coming of Christ should be sober, and watch unto prayer, for our adversary, the Devil, goeth about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour; whom we are to resist steadfast in the faith. -- Ellen G. White
I'm a forgiver. I might not forget, but I forgive. My mother, father and older brother always told me: 'Don't hold grudges. If you do that, you don't lower yourself down to your adversary. Just treat people the way you want to be treated.' I honestly think that's why I was able to survive and have some success. -- Monte Irvin
Our Heavenly Father loves us. He sent His Only Begotten Son to be our Savior. He knew that in mortality we would be in grave danger, the worst of it from the temptations of a terrible adversary. That is one of the reasons why the Savior has provided priesthood keys so that those with ears to hear and faith to obey could go to places of safety. -- Henry B. Eyring
You have to work more than your adversary. -- Jurgen Klinsmann
Superwoman is the adversary of the women's movement. -- Gloria Steinem
A natural adversary is a customer service representative. -- Jon Jones
Too timid to talk back, I shot my adversary. -- Mason Cooley
An exhausted man easily falls prey to the adversary. -- J. Oswald Sanders
Neither side is guiltless if its adversary is appointed judge. -- Lucan
The nature of things is, I admit, a sturdy adversary. -- Edmund Burke
The reader is a friend, not an adversary, not a spectator. -- Jonathan Franzen
But I think the spirit of man is a good adversary -- Tennessee Williams
You negotiate in bad faith if you do not forgive your adversary. -- Nelson Mandela
The shortest road to ruin is to emulate the methods of your adversary. -- Winston Churchill
Hillary Clinton hates Julian Assange, she is just an adversary of internet freedom. -- Kim Dotcom
Self-criticism expands the opportunities for discourse and eliminates the need for an adversary. -- Mason Cooley
It is narual for enemy to attack on the weaker side of the adversary. -- Chanakya
God has not given us the spirit of fear. That comes from the adversary. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
The most difficult adversary I have ever faced happens to look just like me. -- Johnnie Dent Jr.
The Duchess set about studying Annette and shortly found her adversary's tragic flaw. Chocolate. -- William Goldman
As sisters in Zion, we can be obstacles to the adversary's conspiracy against families and virtue. -- Sheri L. Dew
Christian love, which applies to all, even to one's enemies, is the worst adversary of Communism. -- Nikolai Bukharin
Oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments and putting better in their place. -- Samuel Johnson
For touching an adversary's man, when it cannot be captured, the offender must move his King. -- Howard Staunton
You will never come up against a greater adversary than your own potential, my young friend. -- Michael Piller
Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled. -- Samuel Johnson
Only way to eliminate the element of surprise is to know yourself and now your adversary. -- Georges St-Pierre
It is always more difficult to fight one's own failings than the power of an adversary. -- Jawaharlal Nehru
Tragedy and adversary are the stones we sharpen our swords against so we can fight new battles. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Nothing is so great an adversary to those who make it their business to please as expectation. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
I believe that sitting naked across from your adversary in a steam room makes negotiations more productive. -- David Shapiro
Seeing me before him, / The adversary attacks, / But by that time / I am already standing / Safely behind him. -- Morihei Ueshiba
The adversary humbly cloaked in its fine smile 'eyes devoid of kindness, speaking gentle its knife secretly hidden. -- Evelyn Leilou Colon
Remember to remember: sometimes your adversary is your biggest asset. Where would David be without Goliath? Jesus without Judas? -- Brandi L. Bates
Time is a watchful adversary, who waits enduringly for that merciless hour, hurrying to work the hands of separation. -- Kelly Vang
I did what all good Iriah dads do when faced with a worthy adversary..I said Ask your mother!! -- Eoin Colfer
We cannot hope to control what we do not understand, nor to confront our adversary, war, with our eyes averted. -- Carl Mydans
We have a cunning adversary, who watches to do mischief, and will promote errors, even by the words of scripture. -- Matthew Henry
Be sober, be vigilant because your adversary the Devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. -- Jennifer Crusie
I do not know of any environmental group in any country that does not view its government as an adversary. -- Gro Harlem Brundtland
I think we have no apologies to make. We were in a state of global rivalry with a global adversary. -- Chester Crocker
A total commitment to anxiously serve the Lord and others is the surest way to overcome temptations of the adversary. -- James M. Paramore
With any good story, you need the adversary, the heroes and villains. You need a good mixture to make it work. -- Phil Keoghan
Israel always has to be in a position to defend itself against any adversary and against any threat of any kind. -- Ehud Olmert
Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much. -- William Godwin
Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed. -- Miguel de Cervantes
The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary. -- George Bernard Shaw
Strengthen an adversary led by a dictator who dreams of reassembling the old Soviet empire? What an extraordinarily dangerous lack of judgment. -- Chris Christie
Know my name is lost, By treason's tooth bare-gnawn and canker-bit; Yet am I noble as the adversary I come to cope. -- William Shakespeare
We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
May you constantly nourish your testimonies of the gospel that they will be a protection to you against the buffetings of the adversary. -- Thomas S. Monson
The nearer a person approaches the Lord, a greater power will be manifested by the adversary to prevent the accomplishment of His purposes. -- Joseph Smith, Jr.
To help someone who is down on their luck is admirable. To help an adversary who is down on their luck is divine. -- Christopher Jones
Conservatives understand Halloween, liberals only understand Christmas. If you want to control a population, don't give it social services, give it a scary adversary. -- Tom Robbins
Many citizens see all the leadership of these large institutions together in a conspiracy against them rather than in any adversary relationship with each other. -- Robert Teeter
Without an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how great and efficient it really is only when it shows by endurance what it is capable of. -- Seneca the Younger
China is a rising adversary. So one of the things we have to do if we want China's support is to push back on China. -- Carly Fiorina
I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in distress. -- Robert Kennedy
The Englishman, be it noted, seldom resorts to violence; when he is sufficiently goaded he simply opens up, like the oyster, and devours his adversary. -- Henry Miller
I am the nice adversary, the guy that's going to ask the tough questions and is not going to be happy with the quick answer. -- Guillermo del Toro
You have to look good when you are riding, you have to impress your adversary with your elegance. To look good is already to go fast. -- Paul Fournel
The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention. -- Adolf Hitler
The human mind, in taking us down the path of technocracy, has become the adversary of life itself and collaterally the adversary of the human soul. -- Konrad Lorenz
Think of your adversary as a bearer of equilibrium; if we have need of friends to stimulate us, we equally need someone to show us our errors. -- Chico Xavier
The American people cannot close their eyes to abuses of human rights and injustice, whether they occur among friend or adversary or even on our own shores. -- Ronald Reagan
Gandhi saw how people have to re-think their own individuality before engaging in political activity. Otherwise they're just playing the game that the adversary has set out. -- Pankaj Mishra
And once you're unafraid with death, I think your capacity for violence is immediately increased. Once you're unafraid of death, you are a very, very dangerous adversary -- Cillian Murphy
And that is how we intend to destroy the enemy!" The superior shakes his head wearily. "Young man, the Soviets are our adversary. The Navy is the enemy. -- David Frum
With regard to precipitous heights, if you are beforehand with your adversary, you should occupy the raised and sunny spots, and there wait for him to come up. -- Sun Tzu
To seduce the enemies soldiers from their allegiance and encourage them to surrender is of special service, for an adversary is more hurt by desertion than by slaughter. -- Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
Historically, it is important to try to understand your adversary in order to figure out how they are thinking, what they will be doing, how they will react. -- Hillary Clinton
I am looking for the human who admits his flaws Who shocks the adversary By being kinder not stronger What would that be like? We don't even know -- Naomi Shihab Nye
We were given our agency. We must use it wisely and remain close to the Spirit; otherwise, we foolishly find ourselves yielding to the enticements of the adversary. -- Boyd K. Packer
Great advantage is drawn from knowledge of your adversary, and when you know the measure of his intelligence and character, you can use it to play on his weakness. -- Frederick the Great
When you don't fight your adversary, you become the coward in the sight of animalistic breeds, but they forget that your real strength stays in the whisper of your voice. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
It is wrong to follow the advice of an adversary; nevertheless it is right to hear it, that you may do the contrary; and this is the essence of good policy. -- Saadi
Why seeketh thou revenge, O man! with what purpose is it that thou pursuest it? Thinkest thou to pain thine adversary by it? Know that thou thyself feelest its greatest torments. -- Akhenaton
For playing a man to a square to which it cannot be legally moved, the adversary, at his option, may require him to move the man legally, or to move the King. -- Howard Staunton
We should seek after spiritual gifts. They can lead us to God. They can shield us from the power of the adversary. They can compensate for our inadequacies and repair our imperfections. -- Dallin H. Oaks
You can't do it all. No one can have two full-time jobs, have perfect children and cook three meals and be multi-orgasmic 'til dawn ... Superwoman is the adversary of the women's movement. -- Gloria Steinem
One of the adversary's sharpest tools is to convince us that we are no longer worthy to pray. No matter who you are or what you may have done, you can always pray. -- Boyd K. Packer
A man should take to himself no discomfort from an opinion expressed or implied by his adversary, but it is difficult, and oftentimes humiliating to attempt to justify the kindness of one's friends. -- Eugene V. Debs
Every soul confined to a concentration camp of sin and guilt has a key to the gate. The adversary cannot hold them if they know how to use it. The key is labeled Repentance." -- Boyd K. Packer
Conscience is called the adversary, because it always opposes our evil will; it reminds us of what we ought to do but do not, and condemns us if we do something we ought not. -- Dorotheus of Gaza
At the best, sarcasms, bitter irony, scathing wit, are a sort of swordplay of the mind. You pink your adversary, and he is forthwith dead; and then you deserve to be hung for it. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
John F. Kennedy:] Above all, while defending our own vital interests, nuclear powers must avert those confrontations which bring down an adversary to the choice of either a humiliating retreat or a nuclear war. -- Elie Abel
War is not at all such a difficult art as people think. . . . In reality it would seem that he is vanquished who is afraid of his adversary and the the whole secret lies in that. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
There cannot be self-restraint in the absence of desire: when there is no adversary, what avails thy courage? Hark, do not castrate thyself, do not become a monk: chastity depends on the existence of lust. -- Rumi

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