Quotes About Spiritual warfare

The higher you climb, the more Satan will take notice. Keep climbing! Heaven's gate has a lock.

But now, since you are set among Knights of heavenly adventures, if you were worsted at that tournament it is no marvel. For the tournament was meant for a sign, and the earthly Knights were they who were clothed in black in token of the sins of which they were not yet purged.

Do you not begin to see, my reader, that there are two kinds of warfare? The first is when we seek to conquer prayerlessness in our own strength. In that case, my advice to you is to give over your restlessness and effort; fall helpless at the feet of the Lord Jesus. He will speak the word, and your soul will live.

The whole difficulty is that we wish to pray in the Spirit and at the same time walk after the flesh. This is impossible.

Sin which is not confessed is also not combated

Standing firmly on the promises of God, faith refuses to yield and continues to pray and wait for the answer even when it is delayed, knowing that the victory is sure (Ephesians 6:12-18).

I look'd to Heav'n, and try'd to pray; But or ever a prayer had gusht, A wicked whisper came and made My heart as dry as dust.

Resist the devil and he will flee from you. 8Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. Cleanse

The Mass, it seems, is like the Normandy invasion in the spiritual realm.

Next, taking him to a very high mountain, the devil showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendour. 'I will give you all these' he said, 'if you fall at my feet and worship me.' Then Jesus replied, 'Be off, Satan! For scripture says: You must worship the Lord your God, and serve him alone.' Then the devil left him, and angels appeared and looked after him.

Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.

God is raising up a people who have the boldness of the Holy Spirit, and who will, in humility, stare the enemy in the face and renounce him and his strategies! It's time to tear down our father's altars! The coming Church will be an altar-destroying Church!

Man stands under the devil's power, and indeed willingly

since Satan is always breathing down our necks, and is ready and scheming to plunge us into a thousand perils, we ought to be no less watchful and on our guard.

Did not God assist us, we should not only not be able to conquer, but not able even to fight.

Hence there is   nothing that Satan so much endeavors to accomplish as to bring on mists   with the view of obscuring Christ, because he knows, that by this means   the way is opened up for every kind of falsehood.

It is not an external enemy we dread. Our foe is shut up within ourselves. An internal warfare is daily waged by us.

A busy monk is besieged by a single devil but an idle one is destroyed by spirits innumerable.

There are also times when the enemy craftily makes the heart find a little rest, in order that it may not invoke the name of God. For, the demons are not ignorant of the fact that they are annoyed by the invocation of God's name. Therefore, knowing this, let us not cease invoking the name of God for our assistance; for, this is the best prayer. It is also said: "Pray unceasingly" (1 Thess 5.17), and unceasingly implies without end or limit.

To obtain and possess the kingdoms of the world, with their power and glory, by violent injustice is to worship Satan. To obtain and possess the kingdom, the power, and the glory by nonviolent justice is to worship God.

Satan hates me, yet is loth to lose me.

Sometimes Evil pursues the Warrior of the Light, and when it does, he calmly invites it into his tent.

The great enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but the good which is not good enough. The good is always the enemy of the best.

God gives us life, but the world's landlord is the devil.