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Evil is more than the sum of individual misdeeds. Evil has a life of its own. It is not enough to stand aside from it. If it is not actively resisted, it sweeps all before it. Part of a Christian's calling is to resist evil, and in doing so, to endure to the end.
— Fleming Rutledge
New Testament presents us with not two but three agencies: God, the human being, and an Enemy.
— Fleming Rutledge
there has never been a satisfactory account of the origin of evil, and there will be none on this side of the consummation of the kingdom of God. Evil is a vast excrescence, a monstrous contradiction that cannot be explained but can only be denounced and resisted wherever it appears.64
— Fleming Rutledge
In the Bible, the term "apocalyptic" (apokalypsis) encompasses a worldview in which the truly significant battle is the ongoing one between the Lord God of Sabaoth (Hebrew, meaning armies) and the Enemy, who deploys the principalities and Powers (Eph. 2: 2). This contest on the heavenly level is enacted on the earthly level by struggles large and small in the realm of human affairs —battles waged not with worldly weapons but with the spiritual armor of God (Eph. 6: 11-17).
— Fleming Rutledge
When the chips are down, you see who the real fighters are. That is the beauty of Manchester United.
— Phil Jones
Do you know that every unbeliever is filled with a demon spirit?
— Benny Hinn
I know that I'm going out there, and I know that I am going to get hit in the head. I know that's part of football. That's like a firefighter knowing he is going to go into a fire at some point. You know you are going to be put in danger's way, and you accept that risk, and you do it.
— J. J. Watt
One reason whites, men, and Christians are so hated by the elitist establishment is that they tend to be conservative.
— Jesse Lee Peterson
The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.
— Victor Hugo
Those who are preparing for the coming of Christ should be sober, and watch unto prayer, for our adversary, the Devil, goeth about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour; whom we are to resist steadfast in the faith.
— Ellen White
'Wild at Heart' simply came out of my journey as a man and then my work with men.
— John Eldredge
We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.
— Thomas a Kempis