Spiritual Warfare Quotes

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 of the much larger temptation to self-rejection. When we have come to believe in the voices that call us worthless and unlovable, then success, popularity, and power are easily perceived as attractive solutions. The real trap, however, is self-rejection. As soon as someone accuses me or criticizes me, as soon as I am rejected, left alone, or abandoned, I find myself thinking, Well, that proves once again that I am a nobody. ... [My dark side says,] I am no good... I deserve to be pushed aside, forgotten, rejected, and abandoned. Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the Beloved. Being the Beloved constitutes the core truth of our existence.

~ 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 causes them to cherish false conceptions of God so that they regard Him with fear and hate rather than with love. The cruelty inherent in his own character is attributed to the Creator; it is embodied in systems of religion and expressed in modes of worship.

~ 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.

~ 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 you into a coping kind of Christianity that has given up hope of seeing God's resurrection power.

~ Bob Sorge

Take God at His Word – because winning the battle doesn't requirephysical brawn, but spiritual brains!

~ Pedro Okoro

Faith in God will elevate you to next level blessings.

~ Germany Kent

Fight your battles through prayer,And win your battles through faith.

~ Luffina Lourduraj

It is more important to go slow and gain the lessons you need along the journey then to rush the process and arrive at your destination empty.

~ Germany Kent

Dreaming is what you do when your eyes are closed...living is what you do with that dream once you open your eyes!

~ Nathan Parks

We do well to be reminded that the devil hates a praying leader and a praying church. When we begin to pray, we pick a fight with the devil at a whole new level. Yet, our calling is to be praying menaces to the enemy.

~ Daniel Henderson

In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility; but when the blast of war blows in our ears, then imitate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, disguise fair nature with hard-favor'd rage.

~ William Shakespeare

Many Christians... find themselves defeated by the most psychological weapon that Satan uses against them. This weapon has the effectiveness of a deadly missile. Its name? Low self-esteem. Satan's greatest psychological weapon is a gut level feeling of inferiority, inadequacy, and low self-worth This feeling shackles many Christians, in spite of wonderful spiritual experiences and knowledge of God's Word. Although they understand their position as sons and daughters of God, they are tied up in knots, bound by a terrible feeling inferiority, and chained to a deep sense of worthlessness.

~ David A. Seamands

Some people want the past repeated and have an interest in making sure we don't remember it.

~ Paul Krugman

Love is the greatest strength.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Music originated from God and was created solely for his worship, his glory, and his pleasure.

~ Pedro Okoro

They oppressed us but unable to kill our spirit.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You must know your enemy to beat him at his own game, but be ready as well for the ultimate sacrifice, for nobody comes out of hell without a scratch.

~ Robin Sacredfire

Joseph went from prison to prime minister from trials to triumph, from scar-weary to stardom

~ Ikechukwu Joseph

The people living in land of deep darkness have seen a great light.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

This is what the LORD requires of every man; to do justice, to love mercy and to humbly work with God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We must pray for a change.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Love evoke powerful force of divinity in every man.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Lord save mankind from every darkness and bondage.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A spark of divinity ignited a flame of fire within our spirit, our soul and our hearts.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A world of goodness surrounds you.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A man is a hero, not because he is braver than anyone else, but because he is brave for ten minutes longer.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The idea of being vulnerable leaves a lot of room for choice. There is always room to be less foldable, more evil.

~ Sherry Turkle

You possess a great soul, awaken the spirit.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The Christian living is a spiritual welfare. As the year draws to an end, seek the face of the Lord for guidance in the coming year.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The one plus side to demonic infestation is that children cannot be harmed by a demon. The sanctified aura of a child somehow repels the demon and they can only oppress them if the parent makes a contract allowing them to do so. Because they can be very clever in tricking people into agreeing to additional contracts, it is important to never converse with a demon. Either call in a priest or move out as soon as possible.

~ Alexei Maxim Russell

Every victory won was first won spiritually!

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You're looking at me as though I'm weird. My God! Are you so out of touch with most of America, most of which believes in the Devil? I mean, Jesus Christ believed in the Devil! It's in the Gospels! You travel in circles that are so, so removed from mainstream America that you are appalled that anybody would believe in the Devil! Most of mankind has believed in the Devil, for all of history. Many more intelligent people than you or me have believed in the Devil.

~ Antonin Scalia

Most of your unhappiness in life comes from the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself.

~ John Piper

A scar had been beaten into his mind which would only heal by experience.

~ Ian Fleming

Prayer is picking a fight with the Enemy. It's spiritual warfare. Intercession transports us from the sidelines to the front lines without going anywhere. And that is where the battle is won or lost. Prayer is the difference between us fighting for God and God fighting for us. But we can't just hit our knees. We also have to take a step, take a stand. And when we do, we never know what God will do next.

~ Mark Batterson

Great faith surfaces in great problems - have faith

~ Ikechukwu Joseph

Eight weeks of practice in meditation, even with those with no previous experience, was enough reconfigure the brains of participants. The gray matter which fuels worry shrank, and the area associated with healthy thought awareness group.

~ Andrew Zolli

If you are not praying the type of prayers that scare you, your prayers are certainly not frightening our enemy.

~ Lisa Bevere

Be sure of this: when you make time for the Holy Spirit, He will make time to visit you.

~ Tiffany Domena

Just as electricity is unseen, but by the flip of the switch, lights turn on, so also by the words spoken in prayer, miracles manifest.

~ Tiffany Domena