Quotes related to James 4:7
Put your Isaac on the altar! Then, and only then, will you see what God can do. He cannot give back what you do not give up. But if you surrender yourself to Him, He will provide the ram in the thicket.
— Mark Batterson
When we hit our knees, we pick a fight with the enemy. We are immediately transported to the front lines of the kingdom, where we wage war with principalities and powers. That is where the battle is won or lost - on our knees! And when we hit our knees, God fights our battles for us.
— Mark Batterson
All of us want to do amazing things for God, but that isn't our job; it is God's job. Our job is simply to consecrate ourselves by yielding our will to His will. And if we do our job, God will do His job.
— Mark Batterson
When I was in college, I wanted to be Joshua. Every time there was an altar call, I responded. Why? Because I didn't want to leave whatever gift God wanted to give me at the altar.
— Mark Batterson
The beauty of obedience is this: it relieves us of responsibility.
— Mark Batterson
The Heavenly Father does not ask for golden vessels. He does not ask for silver vessels. God asks for yielded vessels.
— Kathryn Kuhlman
No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn't in submission to God!
— Bishop TD Jakes
For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.… Thus is the Devil ever God's ape.
— Martin Luther
The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.
— Martin Luther
All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word.
— Martin Luther
The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn.
— Martin Luther
If I profess with loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except that little point which the world and the Devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved, and to be steady on all the battlefield besides, is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point.
— Martin Luther