I’m not afraid of the devil. The devil can handle me – he’s got judo I never heard of. But he can’t handle the One to whom I’m joined; he can’t handle the One to whom I’m united; he can’t handle the One whose nature dwells in my nature.
– A. W. Tozer
Satan
When the devil sees a man or woman who really believes in prayer, who knows how to pray, and who really does pray, and, above all, when he sees a whole church on its face before God in prayer, he trembles as much as he ever did, for he knows that his day in that church or community is at an end.
– R.A. Torrey
Satan | Prayer
You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge to Satan.
– John Bunyan
Prayer | Satan | Sacrifice
We are evidently no friends of Satan. Like the kings of this world, he wars not against his own subjects. The very fact that he assaults us should fill our minds with hope.
– J. C. Ryle
Satan
My main ambition in life is to be on the devil’s most wanted list.
– Leonard Ravenhill
Satan
Like a good chess player, Satan is always trying to manuever you into a position where you can save your castle only by losing your bishop.
– C.S. Lewis
Satan
Satan’s greatest success is in making people think they have plenty of time before they die to consider their eternal welfare.
– John Owen
Satan | Eternity
It’s Satan’s delight to tell me that once he’s got me, he will keep me. But at that moment I can go back to God. And I know that if I confess my sins, God is faithful and just to forgive me.
– Alan Redpath
Satan | Repentance | Forgiveness
It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?
– Dwight L. Moody
Satan | Children
As the most dangerous winds may enter at little openings, so the devil never enters more dangerously than by little unobserved incidents, which seem to be nothing, yet insensibly open the heart to great temptations.
– John Wesley
Satan | Temptation
For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.
– Martin Luther
Satan
The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.
– Corrie Ten Boom
Satan | Enemies | Victory
The mind suffers the onslaughts of the powers of darkness more than any other organ of the whole man.
– Watchman Nee
Satan
Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.
– Billy Sunday
Hell | Satan
Satan so hates the genuine praise of Christ that his fiery darts of discouragement are not effective against us when we respond in praise.
– William Thrasher
Satan | Praise
The thing that makes us know that this “latter rain” that is flooding the world with the glory of God is of the Lord is because the devil is not in such business.
– William J. Seymour
Satan
Do not be despondent when fighting against the incorporeal enemy, but even in the midst of your afflictions and oppression praise the Lord, Who has found you worthy to suffer for Him, by struggling against the subtlety of the serpent, and to be wounded for Him at every hour; for had you not lived piously, and endeavored to become united to God, the enemy would not have attacked and tormented you.
– John of Kronstadt
Affliction | Satan | Piety
We must recognize how the evil one is working in this world and take a firm stance against him. It means we take careful thought concerning what we put in our minds – what we listen to, what we watch, and how we use our time.
– Chip Ingram
Satan | Time
Each stage of the believer’s walk possesses its particular hazard. The new life within us wages a constant war against all which opposes its growth. During the physical stage, it is a war against sins; in the soulish phase, it is a battle against the natural life; and lastly, on the spiritual level, it is an onslaught against the supernatural enemy.
– Watchman Nee
Perseverance | Satan | Growth
And then she understood the devilish cunning of the enemies’ plan. By mixing a little truth with it they had made their lie far stronger.
– C.S. Lewis
Satan | Lying
The enemy uses all his power to lead the Christian, and above all the minister, to neglect prayer. He knows that however admirable the sermon may be, however attractive the service, however faithful the pastoral visitation, none of these things can damage him or his kingdom if prayer is neglected.
– Andrew Murray
Satan | Prayer
There is no neutral ground in the universe; every square inch, every split second, is claimed by God and counter-claimed by Satan.
– C.S. Lewis
God | Satan
To assure victory we need to watch even the sound of our speech. Immediately the evil spirit touches our spirit, our voice loses its softness. A harsh, hard, and shrill utterance does not spring from the Holy Spirit; it simply exhibits the fact that the one who speaks has been poisoned already by Satan.
– Watchman Nee
Satan | Victory
Self-righteousness is the devil’s masterpiece to make us think well of ourselves.
– Thomas Adams
Pride | Satan | Self-righteousness
The devil does not stay where music is.
– Martin Luther
Satan | Music
It’s Satan’s delight to tell me that once he’s got me, he will keep me. But at that moment I can go back to God. And I know that if I confess my sins, God is faithful and just to forgive me.
– Alan Redpath
Satan | Repentance | Forgiveness
Satan rocks the cradle when we sleep at our devotions.
– Joseph Hall
Satan
Satan can only attack us from the outside in. He may work through the lust and sensations of the body or through the mind and emotion of the soul, for those two belong to the outward man.
– Watchman Nee
Satan | Lust
Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
– Jonathan Edwards
Humility | Satan
Soon the battle will be over. It will not be long now before the day will come when Satan will no longer trouble us. There will be no more domination, temptation, accusation, or confrontation. Our warfare will be over and our commander, Jesus Christ, will call us away from the battlefield to receive the victor’s crown.
– Thomas Watson
Satan | Heaven
If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn’t do anything to you, but since you aren’t wise, you need us who are old.
– Martin Luther
Wisdom | Satan | Youth
Satan’s arsenal consists of such things as fear, worry, doubt, and self-pity. Every one of these weapons robs us of peace and leaves us troubled inside. Do you want to discern where the enemy is coming against you? In the network of your relationships, wherever you do not have peace, you have war. Conversely, wherever you have victory, you have peace. When Satan hurls his darts against you, the more peace you have during adversity, the more truly you are walking in Christ’s victory.
– Francis Frangipane
SatanDiscernment
Mock the devil and he will flee from thee. Fear of the devil leads to devil worship.
– Bono
Satan
He must wholeheartedly oppose the work of the adversary in both his soul and body.
– Watchman Nee
Satan
Prayer is repeating the victor’s name (Jesus) into the ears of Satan and insisting on his retreat.
– S.D. Gordon
Prayer | Satan | Victory
Satan has access to the domain of darkness, but he can only occupy those areas where mankind, through sin, has allowed him.
– Francis Frangipane
Satan | Sin
Often Satan injects pride into the believer’s spirit, evoking in him an attitude of self-importance and of self-conceit. He causes him to esteem himself a very outstanding person, one who is indispensable in God’s work. Such a spirit constitutes one of the major reasons for the fall of believers.
– Watchman Nee
Satan | Pride | Attitude
More churches have been destroyed by the accuser of the brethren and its faultfinding than by either immorality or misuse of church funds. So prevalent is this influence in our society that, among many, faultfinding has been elevated to the status of a “ministry”!
– Francis Frangipane
Church | Satan
Just because the current giant you are facing looks like one you defeated in the past, don’t buy the lie that you never really won the first battle! By the strength of God’s grace, you trusted the Almighty and conquered your Goliath. The first giant is dead. Satan is masquerading as your former enemy so he can slip past your faith and regain entrance into your life. Resist him.
– Francis Frangipane
Satan
If you yield to Satan in the least, he will carry you further and further, till he has left you under a stupefied or terrified conscience: stupefied, till thou hast lost all thy tenderness. A stone at the top of a hill, when it begins to roll down, ceases not till it comes to the bottom. Thou thinkest it is but yielding a little, and so by degrees are carried on, till thou hast sinned away all thy profession, and all principles of conscience, by the secret witchery of his temptations.
– Thomas Manton
Backsliding | Satan
Now should the Christian be deceived already, then he fights to regain his freedom. If not, then he strives to rescue others and to prevent the foe from attacking.
– Watchman Nee
HumilitySatanFreedom
The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
– George Herbert
Satan | Atheism
Jesus once said that Satan was a thief. Satan does not steal money, for he knows that money has no eternal value. He steals only what has eternal value – primarily the souls of men.
– Zac Poonen
Satan
Why is the Christian’s mental life so beset by evil spirits? This can be answered in one sentence: believers afford the evil spirits (or the devil) the opportunity to attack.
– Watchman Nee
Satan
Satan is the arch-counterfeiter.
– A. W. Pink
Satan
Satan doth sow most of his seed of temptation in hearts that lie fallow. When he sees persons unemployed, he will find work for them to do.
– Thomas Watson
Satan | Temptation
Since the enemy focuses particular attention on the spirit, how necessary for spiritual believers to keep their own spirit in its normal state and frequently exercise it as well. Their mind must be kept perfectly calm without any disturbance; their physical senses too must be maintained in a quiet balance without agitation.
– Watchman Nee
Perseverance | Satan
Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
– Thomas Carlyle
Satan
Till we sin Satan is a parasite; but when once we are in the devil’s hands he turns tyrant.
– Thomas Manton
Satan
Put very simply, Satan’s power in the world is everywhere. Yet wherever men and women walk in the Spirit, sensitive to the anointing they have from God, that power of his just evaporates. There is a line drawn by God, a boundary where by virtue of his own very presence Satan’s writ does not run. Let God but occupy all the space himself, and what room is left for the evil one?
– Watchman Nee
Satan | The Holy Spirit
If the devil were wise enough and would stand by in silence and let the Gospel be preached, he would suffer less harm. For when there is no battle for the Gospel it rusts and it finds no cause and no occasion to show its vigor and power. Therefore, nothing better can befall the Gospel than that the world should fight it with force and cunning.
– Martin Luther
Satan | The Gospel
I believe Satan to exist for two reasons: first, the Bible says so; and second, I’ve done business with him.
– Dwight L. Moody
Satan
With devotion’s visage and pious action we do sugar o’er the devil himself.
– Thomas Fuller
Satan | Piety
To discern spirits we must dwell with Him who is holy, and He will give the revelation and unveil the mask of Satanic power on all lines.
– Smith Wigglesworth
Satan | Discernment
In the midst of a world of light and love, of song and feast and dance, Lucifer could find nothing to think of more interesting than his own prestige.
– C.S. Lewis
Satan | Pride
Oh, how we should guard against whatever is extreme and guard against misunderstanding in spiritual doctrine. We need not fear being radical in obeying the Lord, that is for sure; nor do we need to guard against being extreme in denying the works of the flesh. But most vigilant must we be that we do not be led to any extremes through misconception.
– Watchman Nee
Perseverance | Satan | Doctrine
The enemy uses all his power to lead the Christian, and above all the minister, to neglect prayer. He knows that however admirable the sermon may be, however attractive the service, however faithful the pastoral visitation, none of these things can damage him or his kingdom if prayer is neglected.
– Andrew Murray
Satan | Prayer
When a Christian shuns fellowship with other Christians, the devil smiles. When he stops studying the Bible, the devil laughs. When he stops praying, the devil shouts for joy.
– Corrie Ten Boom
Prayer | Fellowship | Satan
No sooner is a temple built to God, but the devil builds a chapel hard by.
– George Herbert
Satan
When I say, “God is love,” what do I mean by it? Why this, that God sent His only-begotten Son that we might have life in Him. We still carry about the old nature; but, blessed be God, many a time as Satan has caught me, he has never destroyed me; there is the propitiation,–I am inside, sheltered by the blood, and forgiven.
– G.V. Wigram
Love | Satan
Sometimes Satan provokes us to harden our spirit. It can become stiff, unyielding, narrow and selfish. Such a spirit cannot work with God nor can it do His will.
– Watchman Nee
Satan
The enemy utilizes this desire of keeping the conscience void of offense by accusing us of various things. In mistaking such accusations as being from our own consciences we often lose our peace, tire of trying to keep pace with false accusations, and thus cease to advance spiritually with confidence.
– Watchman Nee
Conscience | Satan
As Christ has a Gospel, Satan has a gospel too; the latter being a clever counterfeit of the former. So closely does the gospel of Satan resemble that which it parades, multitudes of the unsaved are deceived by it.
– A. W. Pink
Satan | The Gospel | Deception
Were Satan to strike the children of God with great force at one time, they would know exactly how to resist the enemy since they would immediately recognize his work. He uses the method of gradualism to wear down the people of God.
– Watchman Nee
Satan
Should anyone allow his head to cease thinking, searching, and deciding and to no longer check his experience and action against the Bible, he is practically inviting Satan to invade his mind and deceive him.
– Watchman Nee
The Bible | Satan
Whenever God erects a house of prayer, the devil always builds a chapel there; And ’twill be found, upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation.
– Assorted Authors
Satan | Church
In contradistinction to the Gospel of Christ, the gospel of Satan teaches salvation by works.
– A. W. Pink
Satan | Salvation
The Devil himself is good when he is pleased.
– Thomas Fuller
Satan
Eve’s heart was sinless and yet she received Satan’s suggested thoughts. She was thus beguiled through his deception into forfeiting her reasoning and tumbling into the snare of the enemy.
– Watchman Nee
Reasoning | Satan | The Heart
The devil will endeavor to fascinate through the eyes and through the mind.
– Smith Wigglesworth
Satan
The devil lies brooding in the miser’s chest.
– Thomas Fuller
Satan | Finances
I do not deny that the Devil has some pretty apples; I just say that all of them are fakes and that after you bite into them, you will find they have worms. All Satan’s apples have worms.
– John R. Rice
Satan
It’s a fact of earthly life that when God opens the windows of heaven to bless us, the devil opens the doors of hell to blast us. When God begins moving, the devil fires up all his artillery.
– Adrian Rogers
Blessings | Satan
Satan frequently either unsettles the emotions of the physical bodies of spiritual believers, or he blocks the works of the spiritual ones, or he may disturb their environments.
– Watchman Nee
Satan
Satan, like a fisher, baits his hook according to the appetite of the fish.
– Thomas Adams
Satan
It is true that Satan often uses the flesh to secure the consent of man, yet in each instance of enticement the enemy creates some kind of thought by which to induce the man. We cannot separate temptation and thought. All temptations are offered us in the form of thoughts. Since the latter are so exposed to the power of darkness, we need to learn how to guard them.
– Watchman Nee
Temptation | Satan
The devil is not terribly frightened of our human efforts and credentials. But he knows his kingdom will be damaged when we begin to lift up our hearts to God.
– Jim Cymbala
Satan | Prayer
The memories Satan selects never reflect the way it really was.
– Woodrow Kroll
Satan
Satan can make men dance upon the brink of hell as though they were on the verge of heaven.
– Charles Spurgeon
Satan | Hell
All the plots of hell and commotions on earth have not so much as shaken God’s hand to spoil one letter or line he has been drawing.
– William Gurnall
Satan
Negligence in prayer withers the inner man. Nothing can be a substitute for it, not even Christian work. Many are so preoccupied with work that they allow little time for prayer. Hence they cannot cast out demons. Prayer enables us first inwardly to overcome the enemy and then outwardly to deal with him.
– Watchman Nee
Satan | Prayer | Overcoming
The higher the hill, the stronger the wind: so the loftier the life, the stronger the enemy’s temptations.
– Assorted Authors
Temptation | Satan
To sin because mercy abounds is the devil’s logic; he that sins because of God’s mercy, shall have judgment without mercy. Mercy is not for them that sin and fear not, but for them that fear and sin not.
– Thomas Watson
Sin | Mercy | Satan
It strikes some as odd to say that Satan has a strategy. They mistakenly conclude that because our Enemy is atrociously sinful he must be equally stupid. Such reasoning has been the downfall of many in the body of Christ.
– Sam Storms
Satan
Don’t ever try to argue with the Devil.
– Rick Warren
Satan
Satan tempts to sin gradually. As the husbandman digs about the root of a tree, and by degrees loosens it, and at last it falls. Satan steals by degrees into the heart: he is at first more modest.
– Thomas Watson
Satan | The Heart
The enemy of our salvation especially strives to draw our heart and mind away from God when we are about to serve Him, and endeavors to adulterously attach our heart to something irrelevant. Be always, every moment, with God, especially when you pray to Him. If you are inconstant, you will fall away from life, and will cast yourself into sorrow and straightness.
– John of Kronstadt
Satan | Service
The need today is for a company of overcoming saints who know how to wage war for the release of those under the enemy’s deception.
– Watchman Nee
Satan | Deception
Satan would seem to be mannerly and reasonable; making as if he would be content with one-half of the heart, whereas God challengeth all or none: as, indeed, He hath most reason to claim all that made all. But this is nothing but a crafty fetch of Satan; for he knows that if he have any part, God will have none: so the whole falleth to his share alone.
– Joseph Hall
Satan
God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity.
– Billy Sunday
Drunkenness | Satan
I know well that when Christ is nearest, Satan also is busiest.
– Robert Murray McCheyne
Satan
If you want to drive the devil out of the world, hit him with a cradle instead of a crutch.
– Billy Sunday
Satan
The Devil accuses us when we fall, but he has not so much on his side as we have.
– Stephen Charnock
Satan
Believers are encouraged to put on the full armor of God in order to deal with our common enemy: Satan.
– Crystal McDowell
Satan
It is difficult to estimate how much of the world’s philosophy, ethics, knowledge, research, and science flow from the powers of darkness. But of one point we are certain: all arguments and proud obstacles against the knowledge of God are the fortresses of the enemy.
– Watchman Nee
Philosophy | Satan | Knowledge
But as long as we live on the earth, we are still on Satan’s turf. He will try to rule our lives by deceiving us into believing that we still belong to him.
– Neil T. Anderson
Satan
Satan has no merit of his own to enter as plea for vengeance.
– Stephen Charnock
Satan
The best thing for the saint to do is to claim the victorious name of the Lord Jesus over every onslaught of the enemy.
– Watchman Nee
Satan
Satan is not an initiator but an imitator.
– A. W. Pink
Satan
The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
– Jonathan Edwards
Satan