Quotes related to 1 Peter 5:8
The last thing the devil wants you to do is be an obedient Christian.
— Joyce Meyer
My problem is desserts. I am obsessed with desserts.
— Sofia Vergara
Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell
— Oprah Winfrey
How do you know when the obstacles in your path have been placed by God to protect you, or by Satan to hinder God's purposes in your affairs?
— OS Hillman
Sin makes our armor vulnerable to attack from Satan, who then gains permission from God to attack us in the area where we have failed to uphold righteousness. If we break down in moral purity, Satan comes in and establishes a stronghold. If we give place to bitterness and unwillingness to forgive, we break fellowship with God and others. If we become money-focused, we fall into greed and deception. Sin is a vicious cycle that leaves us weak and vulnerable to ever more sin.
— OS Hillman
After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.
— Oscar Wilde
There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that every fibre of the body, as every cell of the brain, seems to be instinct with fearful impulses. Men and women at such moments lose the freedom of their will. They move to their terrible end as automatons move. Choice is taken from them, and conscience is either killed, or, if it lives at all, lives but to give rebellion its fascination, and disobedience its charm.
— Oscar Wilde
The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.
— Oscar Wilde
cautiously, you avoid trouble. See all that you can — then, if you forget the perilous and
— Confucius
Somewhere in the gray wood by the river is the huntsman and in the brooming corn and in the castellated press of cities. His work lies all wheres and his hounds tire not. I have seen them in a dream, slaverous and wild and their eyes crazed with ravening for souls in this world. Fly them.
— Cormac McCarthy
Satan hath power to assume a pleasing form. Them big blue eyes. Knew more ways to turn a man's head than the devil's grandmother. I dont know where they learn it at. Hell, she wasnt but seventeen.
— Cormac McCarthy
The more naive your life the more frightening your dreams. Your unconscious will keep trying to wake you.
— Cormac McCarthy