Quotes about Satan
and prefers to sit out a problem rather than sweat out a solution. That nonchalant and perfunctory attitude is a powerful tool of satan in his efforts to retard the growth of God's Kingdom.
- Myles Munroe
But if there had been an earlier "victory," when did it take place? Matthew, Mark, and Luke all supply the answer: at the beginning of Jesus's public career, during his forty-day fast in the desert, when the satan tried to distract him, to persuade him to grasp the right goal by the wrong means, and so to bring him over to his side (Matt. 4:1—11; Mark 1:12—13; Luke 4:1—13).
- NT Wright
New creation can happen because the power of the satan, of Babylon, of Pharaoh has been broken. That is how the story works. That is what is different by six o'clock on the evening of Good Friday, though Jesus's followers don't realize it until the third day, which is the first day of the new week, the start of the new world.
- NT Wright
Jesus did not come just to forgive our sins and give us life; He came to undo the works of Satan (see 1 John 3:8).
- Neil Anderson
The major strategy of Satan is to distort the character of God and the truth of who we are. He can't change God and he can't do anything to change our identity and position in Christ. If, however, he can get us to believe a lie, we will live as though our identity in Christ isn't true.
- Neil Anderson
Never ask another person's advice about anything God makes you decide before Him. If you ask advice, you will almost always side with Satan. ". . . I did not immediately confer with flesh and blood . . ." (Galatians 1:16).
- Oswald Chambers
Satan does not tempt us to do wrong things; he tempts us in order to make us lose what God has put into us by regeneration, viz., the possibility of being of value to God. He does not come on the line of tempting us to sin, but on the line of shifting the point of view, and only the Spirit of God can detect this as a temptation of the devil.
- Oswald Chambers
Satan is only a voice—a spirit, not a person. He can be as relentless as a stalker ignoring a court order, but he can't get inside your head unless you hold the door open.
- Patrick Morley
Satan hates for any person to have the eyes of their understanding opened through the revelation of God's Word.
- Perry Stone
Sin was a result of Satan's rebellion in Heaven. Satan then influenced man to disobey God. Heaven and Earth would need blood to restore the bridge between God and man.
- Perry Stone
Don't make Satan bigger than God, darkness greater than light, and evil greater than good.
- Perry Stone
Satan cannot compare to God, and he never will.
- Perry Stone