Quotes about Spiritual warfare
The only way the devil can hurt God is through humans, and so he focuses upon us. His strategy is to try to frustrate God's purpose for humanity
- Dallas Willard
Satan can do nothing about God's unshakable kingdom directly, but only indirectly through human infirmity and rebellion. His way of doing that is to persuade, and to tempt, and to deceive humanity.
- Dallas Willard
Satan, then, is God's primary target, for he is the one who bears the primary responsibility for all that is wrong with the world.
- Dallas Willard
Satan, and his intent is to thwart God's purposes by manipulating the minds of human beings.
- Dallas Willard
Satan's constant assault is aimed at our belief in God's goodness and power, that God will supply all our needs, and that we can trust God to be sufficient in all ways. When our minds are on God, and our thoughts are formed by our knowledge of God, such sufficiency will flow to us. Thus Satan's main task is to keep our minds elsewhere, anywhere but on God.
- Dallas Willard
In the Christian combat, not the striker, as in the Olympic contests, but he who is struck, wins the crown. This is the law in the celestial theatre, where the Angels are the spectators.
- St. John Chrysostom
It's because she wants it told he thought so that people whom she will never see and whose names she will never hear and who have never heard her name nor seen her face will read it and know at last why God let us lose the War: that only through the blood of our men and the tears of our women could He stay this demon and efface his name and lineage from the earth.
- William Faulkner
Unfortunately, most Christians do not understand the battle they are fighting, the enemy that they face, or the means God has provided to overcome the temptations and deception of this present world system.
- Chip Ingram
How can you pull down strongholds of Satan if you don't even have the strength to turn off your TV?
- Leonard Ravenhill
If we had more sleepless nights in prayer, there would be fewer souls to have a sleepless eternal night in hell.
- Leonard Ravenhill
Christ conquered him two thousand years ago. Satan fools and feints, blows and bluffs, and we so often take his threats to heart and forget ''the exceeding greatness of God's power to usward.
- Leonard Ravenhill
I personally claim no special insight into Satan's methods, but I have at times been able to identify his influence and his actions in my life and in the lives of others. When I was on my first mission, Satan sought to divert me from my future path and, if possible, to destroy my usefulness in the Lord's work.
- James Faust