{"quotes":[{"text":"If you are paralyzed by your past, if Satan is destroying your gifts and your calling by his incessant replaying of old tapes, you're actually being hit by a double whammy. The original damage in the past is one thing - but now you're letting yourself be hurt and sidetracked again by the memory of what happened... We should not be ignorant of Satan's devices, and these ugly memories are one of the main weapons in his arsenal.","author":"Jim Cymbala","tags":["past-memories","satan","spiritual-warfare"],"id":69,"author_id":"Jim+Cymbala"},{"text":"The modern world has forgotten the necessity of encouraging men to be better. They speak of sick men or healthy men, of interesting people or uninteresting people; they never, or seldom, indicate that there is and must be an interior and spiritual improvement in man before any of the glowing coals of humanity can be reached. They have cultivated everything but the goodness of man. The result of such shallowness is everywhere apparent.","author":"Francis Beauchesne Thornton","tags":["goodness","holiness","humanity","modernism","modernity","sin","spiritual-growth","spiritual-warfare","virtue","virtues-and-vices"],"id":10138,"author_id":"Francis+Beauchesne+Thornton"},{"text":"God isn’t asking you to fight the devil. He is asking you to simply uphold or sustain the victory won byJesus at Calvary and enforce his authority over the devil. You’re like the traffic warden who raises his hand and the vehicles stop. They don’t stop because he can physically bring thevehicles to a halt, but because he is representing and upholding the authority of the state.","author":"Pedro Okoro","tags":["spiritual-insights","spiritual-warfare","spiritual-wisdom"],"id":12335,"author_id":"Pedro+Okoro"},{"text":"When one of my friends becomes a Christian, which happens about every 10 years because I am a sheep about sharing my faith, the experience is euphoric. I see in their eyes the trueness of the story.","author":"Donald Miller","tags":["conversion","spiritual-warfare","testimony"],"id":12521,"author_id":"Donald+Miller"},{"text":"He was the perfect soldier: he went where you sent him, and stayed where you put him, and had no idea of his own to keep him from doing exactly what you told him.","author":"Dashiell Hammett","tags":["discernment","discipleship","spiritual-warfare"],"id":22946,"author_id":"Dashiell+Hammett"},{"text":"Knowledge is not necessary for obedience, nor doth information replace faith. El hast commanded. We shall obey.","author":"Donovan M. Neal","tags":["angels","spiritual-warfare"],"id":23471,"author_id":"Donovan+M.+Neal"},{"text":"You will only learn in a fight how much you've got to learn.","author":"Richard Llewellyn","tags":["adversity","discipleship","humility","spiritual-warfare"],"id":28148,"author_id":"Richard+Llewellyn"},{"text":"I dwell on God's blessings.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["dwell","dwelling","dwellings","god-s-grace","god-s-plan","godly","gods-sovereignty","positive-thoughts","spiritual","spiritual","spiritual-sayings","spiritual-warfare","spiritual-wisdom"],"id":30740,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Have you ever wondered why you did not rapture and go to heaven the day you became a Christian? It is because God has work for you to do here on earth! Having gone to heaven, Jesus expects you to be his body on earth. You are his hands, his feet, his voice.","author":"Pedro Okoro","tags":["christian-life","spiritual-warfare"],"id":33242,"author_id":"Pedro+Okoro"},{"text":"What we are taught to seek or shun in prayer, we should equally pursue or avoid in action. Very earnestly, therefore, should we avoid temptation, seeking to walk so guardedly in the path of obedience, that we may never tempt the devil to tempt us.","author":"Charles Haddon Spurgeon","tags":["discipleship","spiritual-warfare"],"id":34128,"author_id":"Charles+Haddon+Spurgeon"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":152,"pages":16,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}