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And If our God is for us, then who could ever stop us, and if our God is with us, then what can stand against?

Chris Tomlin: And If Our God Is for Us...

To be brave, you have to fight against something that scares you. That's the rule.

Craving Me, Desiring You

I decided quickly that committing crimes against grammar was a hard limit for me.

Diary of a Submissive: A Modern True Tale of Sexual Awakening

After all, a homeless man has reason to cry, everything in the world is pointed against him.

The Dharma Bums

A surge of emotion washed over him, took him under. He was helpless against it, flailing, gasping for air. Drowning in her.

Drowning in Fire

You chose to come to Paris, of all places,” Mencheres replied. So what? Got something against the French?

Destined for an Early Grave

The end is near. I hear a noise at the door, as of some immense slippery body lumbering against it. It shall not find me. God, that hand! The window! The window!

Dagon

Life is a struggle, from the agonies of birth to the railing against death. Devour or be devoured. The law of the wild.

Dark Moon

The truth is, going against the internal stream of ignorance is way more rebellious than trying to start some sort of cultural revolution.

Dharma Punx: A Memoir

She collapsed. I stepped forward and caught her. I thought of two trees nearly unrooted and leaning against each other.

The Dog Stars

An Odonian’s goal is positive, not negative. Suffering is dysfunctional, except as a bodily warning against danger. Psychologically and socially it’s merely destructive.

The Dispossessed

I remember the way his eyes pinned my body against the backdrop of Paris as if I was some rare butterfly pinned to an exhibit box.

Everly After

Art must always stand guard against stirring emotions that lie outside the aesthetic: sexual arousal, terror, disgust, shock.

Encounter

I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.

An Enemy of the People

He refused to believe in his own weaknesses, and with her he had not found a weakness to fit himself against.

The English Patient

I push back against him, meeting his forceful pounds with my eager pu*sy. Riding the razors edge of climactic heaven.

Forever Attraction

But though it had prevailed against such fierce adversaries as fire and flood, it had fallen victim softly and swiftly to television in the 1960's.

The Forgotten Garden

To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated.

Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility

Like Artemis and Orion, fate was working against us, and we couldn't be together in this life. But he will forever be immortalized in my heart.

Gabriel's Collar

Have you ever hoped for something? And held out for it against all the odds? Until everything you did was ridiculous?

The Girl With Glass Feet

If you can't set a better example for progress, don't show disapproval against the worse tradition!

The Great Hand Book of Quotes