 It is true that Satan often uses the flesh to secure the consent of man, yet in each instance of enticement the enemy creates some kind of thought by which to induce the man. We cannot separate temptation and thought. All temptations are offered us in the form of thoughts. Since the latter are so exposed to the power of darkness, we need to learn how to guard them. Author: Watchman Nee |
| The mind suffers the onslaughts of the powers of darkness more than any other organ of the whole man. Author: Watchman Nee |
| Eve's heart was sinless and yet she received Satan's suggested thoughts. She was thus beguiled through his deception into forfeiting her reasoning and tumbling into the snare of the enemy. Author: Watchman Nee |
| Why is the Christian's mental life so beset by evil spirits? This can be answered in one sentence: believers afford the evil spirits (or the devil) the opportunity to attack. Author: Watchman Nee |
| Should anyone allow his head to cease thinking, searching, and deciding and to no longer check his experience and action against the Bible, he is practically inviting Satan to invade his mind and deceive him. Author: Watchman Nee |
| The devil abhors light and truth because these remove the ground of his working. Author: Watchman Nee |
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| The devil has his elect. Author: Thomas Carlyle |
| Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it. Author: Thomas Carlyle |
| All the plots of hell and commotions on earth have not so much as shaken God's hand to spoil one letter or line he has been drawing. Author: William Gurnall |
| The devil had as good have let Paul alone, for he no sooner comes into prison but he falls a preaching, at which the gates of Satan's prison fly open, and poor sinners come forth. Author: William Gurnall |
| Again, Satan will ask the Christian what was the time of his conversion. Art thou a Christian, will he say, and dost thou not know when thou commencedst? Now content thyself with this, that thou seest the streams of grace; you may know the sun is up, though you did not observe when it rose. Author: William Gurnall |
| When Satan finds the good man asleep, then he finds our good God awake; therefore thou art not consumed, because he changeth not. Author: William Gurnall |
