Quotes related to 1 Peter 5:8
What would you expect? Sin will not come to you saying, 'I am sin.' It would do little harm if it did. Sin always seems 'good, pleasant and desirable' at the time of arrival.
— JC Ryle
The devil is so subtle that he dominates man and persuades him at the same time that he is not being dominated.
— Martyn Lloyd-Jones
I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.
— Walt Whitman
Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
I like to think that Henry James said his classic line, A writer is someone on whom nothing is lost, while looking for his glasses, and that they were on top of his head.
— Anne Lamott
The speaker at the meeting, a blonde woman in a fine tailored suit, shared how alcoholism had stolen her own childhood, and had now come back for her child.
— Anne Lamott
that getting all of one's addictions under control is a little like putting an octopus to bed.
— Anne Lamott
The thoughts and emotions we stuff down into the darkness become a playground for the enemy, where his toxic filth breeds best. The compulsion to say the 'right thing' explains why so many of us have fallen spiritually sick.
— Sheila Walsh
Life is the best left hooker I ever saw, although some say it was Charlie White of Chicago
— Ernest Hemingway
If we have any criticism of our leaders, we invite Satan into our lives and beliefs.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Satan knows that youth is the springtime of life when all things are new and young people are most vulnerable.
— Ezra Taft Benson
He shook my dozing soul and threw the cold water of reality in my face, so that life and God and heaven and hell broke into my world with glory and horror. (on CS Lewis)
— John Piper