Satan: His Personality, Power and Overthrow

It is not by positive, conspicuous evil that Satan perverts the Church, but by quiet displacement and by unnoticed substitution. The higher is being retired, the spiritual gives place to the social, and the divine is eli…

The great power and malignity of Satan is seen in that among the most distressing cases were those who were not noted for great sins, but the young and comparative innocent ones were the victims of his dread power.

Nothing advances Satan's work with more skilful and readier hands than to be ignorant of Satan and his ways.

It is on the field of low aims and satisfied results, that the devil wins his chief victories.

A spiritual growth, constant and sure spiritual development, is the surest safeguard against Satan's wiles, assaults and surprises. Constant growth is all eyes and all strength. Satan never finds it asleep, drowsy nor we…

Paul's marvellous career was simple, not complex. He sums it up in fighting, running, watching, the three elements of continuous advance.

Fight the devil and overcome him, is John's process of becoming fathers in spiritual power, rooted, grounded and perfected. Overcoming the devil, is with John the presage of overcoming the world.

Satan has all the vantage ground when we do not maintain the aggressive.

That is the devil's main business'to materialize, earthlyize religion, to get man to live for bread alone, to make earth bigger than heaven.

No more fatal or deadly symptom can be seen in a church than this transference of its strength from spiritual to material forces, from the Holy Ghost to the world. The power of God in the Church is the measure of its str…

True strength lies in the vital godliness of the people. The aggregate of the personal holiness of the members of each church is the only true measure of strength. Any other test offends God, dishonours Christ, grieves t…

One of these taking, man-savouring, Satanic devices is to pervert the aims of the Church after this manner of statement and effort, that the main object of the Church to-day is not so much to save individuals out of soci…

To escape his snare, we must not only have a strong faith in the fact that Satan is, but also must have a most intimate knowledge of him and of his plans and many-sided ways.

The Gospel is represented as a training school in which to deny worldly desires is one part of its curriculum.

Men don't believe in a devil now, As their fathers used to do; They've forced the door of the broadest creed To let his majesty through; There isn't a print of his cloven foot; Or a fiery dart from his bow, To be found i…

A spiritual character can work through agencies or directly on the spirit. He infuses thoughts makes suggestions and does it so deftly that we do not know their paternity. He tempted Eve to take the forbidden fruit. He p…

He is always at church before the preacher is in the pulpit or a member in the pew, to hinder the sower, to impoverish the soil, or to blast the seed, that is, when courage and faith are in the pulpit, and zeal and praye…

To save the world and ignore the individual is not only Utopian, but every way damaging.

The world is one of the enemies which must be fought and conquered on the way to heaven.

Washington, Ga, July 1, 1912: Pray more and more; keep at the four a.m. hour. God will be for it; the devil against it. Press on, you can't pray too much, you may pray too little. The devil will compromise with you to pr…

God is revealed not by argument but by work. We learn what He is from what He does.

The Bible is a revelation, not a philosophy nor a poem, not a science. It reveals things and persons as they are, living and acting outside the range of earthly vision or natural discovery.

unforgiving spirit is not only Satan's widest door into our hearts, but it is the strongest imitation and warmest welcome. St. Paul not only urges a spirit of forgiveness as a bar to the devil's ingress, but hastens to c…

The devil is a created being. He is therefore not self-existent nor eternal, but limited and finite.