Quotes related to 1 Peter 5:8
There are very real forces that whisper lying innuendos that assault your mind, your will, and your emotions in the hope of causing you to turn on yourself and then to turn on others.
— Lisa Bevere
No one launches a large-scale, systematic assault against something that's not considered a threat.
— Lisa Bevere
I endeavored to renounce society, that I might avoid temptation. But it was a poor religion; so far as it prevailed, only tended to make me gloomy, stupid, unsociable, and useless.
— John Newton
Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated.
— Milan Kundera
A Christian has no right being in a fight unless it's a spiritual fight.
— Charles Stanley
When you let go of your attention for a little while, do not think you may recover it whenever you please.
— Epictetus
The Devil is a spiritual lunatic, but, like many lunatics, he is extremely plausible and cunning.
— Dorothy Sayers
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
— Albert Einstein
Half at least of all morality is negative and consists in keeping out of mischief. The lords prayer is less than 50 words long, and 6 of those words are devoted to asking god not to lead us into temptation.
— Aldous Huxley
If you allowed yourselves to think of God, you wouldn't allow yourselves to be degraded by pleasant vices. You'd have a reason for bearing things patiently, for doing things with courage..
— Aldous Huxley
Community, Identity, Stability." Grand words. "If we could bokanovskify indefinitely the whole problem would be solved.
— Aldous Huxley
Anybody can be virtuous now. You can carry at least half your morality about in a bottle. Christianity without tears - that's what soma is.
— Aldous Huxley