Quotes about Enemy

The great enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but the good which is not good enough. The good is always the enemy of the best.

We cannot hope to be secure when our government has declared, by its readiness to act alone, its willingness to be everybody's enemy.

If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.

Well, you need the villain. If you don't have a villain, the good guy can stay home.

When we see others as the enemy, we risk becoming what we hate. When we oppress others, we end up oppressing ourselves. All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others.

Death wasn't part of God's original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy - the last enemy to be destroyed.

We're fighting against humanism, we're fighting against liberalism...we are fighting against all the systems of Satan that are destroying our nation today...our battle is with Satan himself.

Contemplative prayer is a method of exposing and disengaging from the ordinary obstacles to our awareness of God's presence with us. This prayer is not an end, but a beginning. It's easy to give in to the temptation to chase after the enemy every time he shows himself; sometimes it's the right thing to do. There is a better way to defeat him—fix our eyes and our hearts steadfastly on Jesus. His light will drive out the darkness.

Sometimes we must be very aggressive in our dealings with the enemy. Gordon Lindsay used to say every Christian should pray at least one violent prayer every day.

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

Power controlled or abridged is almost always the rival and enemy of that power by which it is controlled or abridged.

The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.