What we are taught to seek or shun in prayer, we should equally pursue or avoid in action. Very earnestly, therefore, should we avoid temptation, seeking to walk so guardedly in the path of obedience, that we may never tempt the devil to tempt us.
Over the years, I have come to realize that the greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity, or power, but self-rejection. Success, popularity, and power can indeed present a great temptation, but their seductive quality often comes from the way they are part...
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Henri J.m. Nouwen
It is Satan's constant effort to misrepresent the character of God, the nature of sin, and the real issues at stake in the great controversy. His sophistry lessens the obligation of the divine law and gives men license to sin. At the same time he...
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Ellen G. White
The good is the Enemy of the best. Until you depart from the good, you cannot enter God's best for your life.
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Pedro Okoro
The nature of the enemy's warfare in your life is to cause you to become discouraged and to cast away your confidence. Not that you would necessarily discard your salvation, but you could give up your hope of God's deliverance. The enemy wants to numb...
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Bob Sorge
Take God at His Word — because winning the battle doesn't requirephysical brawn, but spiritual brains!
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Pedro Okoro
More Quotes By Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened.
There are times when solitude is better than society, and silence is wiser than speech. We should be better Christians if we were more alone, waiting upon God, and gathering through meditation on His Word spiritual strength for labour in his service. We ought to...
When your will is God's will, you will have your will.
You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.
Men will allow God to be everywhere but on his throne. They will allow him to be in his workshop to fashion worlds and make stars. They will allow Him to be in His almonry to dispense His alms and bestow his bounties. they will...
