“If the devil cannot keep you from being saved, if next he fails to make you backslide, then he undertakes to keep you just an average Christian. Here he succeeds with most believers.” IfsChristianNextFailingSucceedDevilAverageBelieverChristian InspirationalSaved Author:Vance Havner
“If devils exist, their first aim is to give you an anesthetic -- to put you off your guard. Only if that fails, do you become aware of them.” IfsGivingFirstsFailingDevilAimAnesthetics Book:God in the Dock Source: God in the Dock
“Human life has not a surer friend, nor oftentimes a greater enemy, than hope. It is the miserable man's god, which in the hardest gripe of calamity never fails to yield to him beams of comfort. It is the presumptuous man's devil, which leads him a while in a smooth way, and then suddenly breaks his neck.” MenWayHumansHopeEnemyBreakGreaterFailingComfortDevilHardestMiserableHuman LifeNecksYieldSmoothCalamityBeamPresumptuous Author:Owen Feltham
“I was born to fight devils and factions. It is my business to remove obstacles, to cut down thorns, to fill up quagmires and to open and make straight paths. If I must have some failing let me rather speak the truth with too great sincerity than once to act the hypocrite and conceal the truth.” IfsFightingSpeakBornPathCuttingFailingDevilLet MeObstaclesRemoveSincerityHypocriteThornsSpeak The TruthFactionsStraight PathQuagmire Author:Martin Luther