Quotes related to 1 Peter 5:8
Satan is only interested in your soul. He doesnt give a shit about your welfare otherwise.
— Cormac McCarthy
The drunk's concern ain't that he's goin to die from drinkin - which he is. It's that he's goin to run out of whiskey fore he gets a chance to do it.
— Cormac McCarthy
He saw a tourist drunk laboring up the sidewalk carrying a full suit of armor. He saw a beautiful young woman vomit in the street. Dogs turned at the sound and ran toward her.
— Cormac McCarthy
What is the knocking? What is the knocking at the door in the night? It is somebody who wants to do us harm. No, no, it is the three strange angels. Admit them, admit them.
— DH Lawrence
Well, if one had to prostitute oneself, let it be to a bitch-goddess!
— DH Lawrence
not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo, The hundred & fifty are dumb yet at Alamo.
— Walt Whitman
To be useful in God's hand, a man must be properly adjusted with respect to all three: his position, his life and his warfare. He falls short of God's requirements if he underestimates the importance of any one of them, for each is a sphere in which God would express "the glory of his grace, which he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved" (1:6).
— Watchman Nee
However zealous He is towards His own will, He will temporarily permit Satan to be on the offensive should His people forget His will and fail to show sympathy by cooperating with Him.
— Watchman Nee
I think we all know how the three dark forces, the world, the flesh, and the devil, stand in opposition to the three divine persons. The flesh is ranged against the Holy Spirit as Paraclete, Satan himself against Christ Jesus as Lord, and the world against the Father as Creator.
— Watchman Nee
Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.
— Charles Martin
If you're having trouble making a distinction between the voices in your head, let me put it this way: there are two sources of supernatural power on this earth. Jesus and satan. If what you're hearing does not come from Jesus, then by definition, it does come from satan.
— Charles Martin
Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged, there's a choice I make. God would never discourage me. He would always point me to himself to trust him. Therefore, my discouragement is from Satan. As you go through the emotions that we have, hostility is not from God, bitterness, unforgiveness, all of these are attacks from Satan.
— Charles Stanley