Quotes related to 1 Peter 5:8
There are dozens of references to God in the Scriptures for every one to the figure of Satan. This reflects a sometimes forgotten theological truth that the devil is by no means God's counterpart. He is a creature, not the Creator.
— John Ortberg
No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be good. Like gold or emerald or purple repeating to itself, "No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be emerald, my color undiminished.
— Marcus Aurelius
Whom a man might compare to one of those half-eaten wretches, matched in the amphitheatre with wild beasts; who as full as they are all the body over with wounds and blood, desire for a great favour, that they may be reserved till the next day
— Marcus Aurelius
I, too, was once like you: fatally hooked on life.
— Margaret Atwood
The only sure camouflage was unpredictability.
— Margaret Atwood
Aunt Lydia, you are too good," he will beam. Too good to be true, I will think. Too good for this earth. Good, be thou my evil.
— Margaret Atwood
Too good to be true, I will think. Too good for this earth. Good, be thou my evil.
— Margaret Atwood
Sometimes he gets high, on the pot that circulates as freely as cigarettes did once. He thinks he should be enjoying this experience more than he actually does.
— Margaret Atwood
The difference between God and the Devil, is that God creates and organizes, while the whole study of the Devil is to convince children that light meat tastes good.
— Brigham Young
I have never once feared the devil, but I tremble every time I enter the pulpit.
— John Knox
Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that reared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them.
— John Bunyan
Fear is born of Satan, and if we would only take time to think a moment we would see that everything Satan says is founded upon a falsehood.
— AB Simpson