We will have no truce or parley with you [Hitler], or the grisly gang who work your wicked will. You do your worst—and we will do our best.

When I was younger I made it a rule never to take a strong drink before lunch. It is now my rule never to do so before breakfast.

Unbelief about the existence and personality of Satan has often proved the first step to unbelief about God.

The hallucinations of alcoholics provide us with an opportunity to study crowds as they appear in the minds of individuals.

So if you get all hung up, thinking now is this thing from God or is it from Satan? Is this the voice of God or the voice of Satan? Stop worrying about it. You don't really need to sort that out because here's a case where the thorn was in a sense given by God as a messenger of Satan.

Nature, red in tooth and claw.

Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.

It is our response to temptation that leads us down the path of righteousness or into the dead end of disobedience.

Satan, the Evil One, is completely opposed to the spiritual well-being of his victims. He is a ferocious lion, and (though not outside of God's sovereign control) he is the ruler of this world. He is behind all sin; and before anyone is born again of the Spirit of God, they actually belong to his domain, and their evil actions give proof of his ownership.

Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

Flee an enemy who knows your weakness.

I love my life as a missionary, keeping myself on the front lines. The image in my mind is that God, my general, stands at the door when I go out every morning; and, knowing what the war is like, day after day he gives me his most powerful weapon: his Spirit. For this I am grateful.