Quotes About Adversary

I had no choice but to pray for his death. Typically enough, the one thing that never occurred to me was to kill him. During the course of my life I have wished innumerable times that I might meet with a violent death, but I have never once desired to kill anybody. I thought that in killing a dreaded adversary I might actually be bringing him happiness.

I thought that in killing a dreaded adversary I might actually be bringing him happiness.

We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.

Agree with your adversary quickly." Have you suddenly reached a certain place in your relationship with someone, only to find that you have anger in your heart? Confess it quickly—make it right before God. Be reconciled to that person—do it now!

Wanting to make sure that my adversary gives me all my rights is a natural thing. But Jesus says that it is a matter of inescapable and eternal importance to me that I pay my adversary what I owe him. From our Lord's standpoint it doesn't matter whether I am cheated or not, but what does matter is that I don't cheat someone else. Am I insisting on having my own rights, or am I paying what I owe from Jesus Christ's standpoint?

Our imagination is the most important faculty we possess. It can be our greatest resource or our most formidable adversary.

Our imagination is the most important faculty we possess. It can be our greatest resource or our most formidable adversary. It is through our imagination that we discern possibilities and options. Yet imagination is no mere blank slate on which we simply inscribe our will. Rather, imagination is the deepest voice of the soul and can be heard clearly only through cultivation and careful attention. A relationship with our imagination is a relationship with our deepest self.

Evil must always be fought.

And there was Ambrose. To deem us simply enemies is to lose the true flavor of our relationship.

is noteworthy that Satan, in the canonical books of the Old Testament, is an adversary of man, but not of God;

Similarly, Thompson urges his readers to not allow the aggressive words and manner of an adversary to have their intended harmful effect.

Your adversary is the Devil, with his army of demons. Your battle with him rages not only all around you, but also within you, a fierce conflict for control of your mind, your heart, and your ultimate destiny.

When you enter into battle in your land against an adversary who attacks you, sound short blasts on the trumpets, and you will be remembered before the LORD your God and saved from your enemies.

if I had not dreaded the taunt of the enemy, lest their adversaries misunderstand and say: ëOur own hand has prevailed; it was not the LORD who did all this.í”

But the commanders of the Philistines were angry with Achish and told him, “Send that man back and let him return to the place you assigned him. He must not go down with us into battle only to become our adversary during the war. What better way for him to regain the favor of his master than with the heads of our men?

But now the LORD my God has given me rest on every side, and there is no adversary or crisis.

Then the LORD raised up against Solomon an adversary, Hadad the Edomite, from the royal line of Edom.

And God raised up against Solomon another adversary, Rezon the son of Eliada, who had fled from his master, Hadadezer king of Zobah,

Esther replied, “The adversary and enemy is this wicked man—Haman!” And Haman stood in terror before the king and queen.

His anger has torn me and opposed me; He gnashes His teeth at me. My adversary pierces me with His eyes.

They did not remember His power—the day He redeemed them from the adversary,

He delivered His strength to captivity, and His splendor to the hand of the adversary.

Set over him a wicked man; let an accuser stand at his right hand.

The adversary has seized all her treasures. For she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary—those You had forbidden to enter Your assembly.