When we go to God by prayer, the devil knows we go to fetch strength against him, and therefore opposeth us all he can.
– Richard Sibbes –
July 21, 2014
No one can live without delight, and that is why a man deprived of spiritual joy goes over to carnal pleasure.
– Thomas Aquinas –
July 16, 2014
…we want to get away from this terrible, haunting preoccupation with ourselves where we love our love of God rather than God Himself.
– Art Katz –
July 14, 2014
It is not falling into water that drowns, but lying in it. It is not falling into sin that damns, but lying in it without repentance.
– Thomas Watson –
May 6, 2014
With every possible guile that he knows, the devil would snatch us from the closet of prayer. For in prayer man is linked with God, and in that union Satan is baffled and beaten.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
April 17, 2014
I find it most true, that the greatest temptation out of hell, is to live without temptations; if my waters should stand, they would rot. Faith is the better of the free air, and of the sharp winter storm in its face. Grace withereth without adversity. The devil is but God’s master fencer, to teach us to handle our weapons.
– Samuel Rutherford –
March 29, 2014
The only way to avoid cannon-shot is to fall down. No such way to be freed from temptation as to keep low.
– Thomas Brooks –