Quotes about Resistance

Many Christians give in to various temptations through peer pressure and find themselves surrendering to worldly passions, justifying pleasures the world offers.

When Jesus was tempted, He didn't debate the devil. He quoted Scripture: "It is written . . . It is written . . . It is written" (Matthew 4:4—10 NKJV). And each time the devil was defeated.

The devil's overriding goal is to block God's work— and if he can convince you God doesn't really love you, or that you can't fully trust Him, then he has blocked God's work in your life and achieved his goal.

We must be constantly aware that Satan can take any human effort and twist it to serve his own purposes.

If you are not careful you will find yourself actually in the employ of the devil. He is powerful, slick, crafty, wily, and subtle.

One of the devil's methods is to attack everyone . . . He knows that the Word of God is powerful, and he will try to keep you from it.

The devil will tremble when you pray.

When the Christian brings the standards of Jesus Christ to bear upon life in a material and secular world, it is often resented. Because the moral and spiritual demands of Jesus Christ are so high, they often set the Christian "apart.

Man has not changed. Man still rejects the testimony of the Scripture.

Worldliness doesn't fall like an avalanche upon a person and sweep him or her away. It is the steady drip, drip, drip of the water that wears away the stone. The world is exerting a steady pressure on us every day. Most of us would go down under it, if it weren't for the Holy Spirit who lives inside us, and holds us up, and keeps us.

If you get down and quarrel everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say.

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.