Quotes about Spiritual warfare
Oh! what a potent instrument for Satan is a misguided conscience(93)!
- Richard Baxter
This needed work is indeed "spiritual warfare," as the desert monks called it, since it takes conscious and sustained struggle to be aware of the shadow self—which only takes ever more subtle disguises the "holier" you get.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Martin Luther said, "You cannot keep birds from flying over your head but you can keep them from building a nest in your hair." You can't keep the Devil from suggesting thoughts, but you can choose not to dwell or act on them.
- Rick Warren
His [Daniel] fast broke the power of the delayer and released the angels of God so that God's purposes could be revealed and served.
- Jentezen Franklin
Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.
- John Bunyan
There are more battles won through prayer than by any other means.
- Chuck Smith
Prayer is not a preparation for the battle; it is the battle!
- Leonard Ravenhill
When a Christian shuns fellowship with other Christians, the devil smiles, When he stops studying the Bible, the devil laughs. When he stops praying, the devils shouts for joy.
- Corrie Ten Boom
If I fail to spend two hours in prayer each morning, the devil gets the victory through the day. I have so much business I cannot get on without spending three hours daily in prayer.
- Martin Luther
If you want to determine if your thoughts are from the enemy or from God, ask yourself, 'Are these thoughts I'd choose to have?
- Stormie Omartian
If we had more sleepless nights in prayer, there would be far fewer souls to have a sleepless eternal night in hell.
- Leonard Ravenhill
Oh, how strenuous is life! I know a little of it. Men "ought always to pray, and not to faint." How fierce the battle! I know something of the conflict, but I ought not to faint, because I can pray.
- G Campbell Morgan