Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes

Christianity is a battle not a dream.

We know of no cure for the love of evil in a Christian like daily communion with the Lord Jesus.

Nothing bothers the devil more than a Christian delighting in God’s presence.

I am sure I ought not to be, but I have great reason to tremble lest Satan and my own wicked heart get the better of me. It is no easy matter to fight such enemies as these, but with Christ strengthening me, I know I shall come off more than a conquerer.

If you will tell me when God permits a Christian to lay aside his armour, I will tell you when Satan has left off temptation.

We cannot give up in the face of evil. God is Love and he has defeated evil through Christ’s death and resurrection.

We've got to remember the Book says the devil "walketh about the earth to and fro seeking who he may devour", and he nearly got me and he had me for a while. It didn't mean that I was no longer a Christian or that God had disowned me.

You've got to walk and talk with God to go to heaven... I have the devil in me! If I didn't have, I'd be Christian!

My 12th was my most Christian and most boring year of my life. Try as I did, day after day, to cling to righteousness, I was washed down in suds of sinful surroundings.

Men are not born saints with special gifts and privileges. They fight against the world, the flesh and the devil, and as they conquer, the spirit of Jesus begins to shine through with more clarity.

It is, perhaps, one of the hardest struggles of the Christian life to learn this sentence-- "Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto Thy name be glory."

The longer I live the more I believe that the greatest enemy of a victorious Christian life is passivity.

Walk more closely with God. Get nearer to Christ. Seek to exchange hope for assurance. Seek to feel the witness of the Spirit more closely and distinctly every year. Lay aside every weight, and the sin that so easily threatens you. Press towards the mark more earnestly. Fight a better fight, and war a better warfare every year you live. Pray more. Read more. Subdue self more. Love the brethren more. Oh that you may endeavor to grow in grace every year, that the end of your Christian course may be better than the beginning!

A true Christian is one who has not only peace of conscience, but war within. He may be known by his warfare as well as by his peace.

Jesus himself has shown us by his own example that prayer and fasting are the first and most effective weapons against the forces of evil.

Faith and works are necessary to our spiritual life as Christians, as soul and body are to our natural life as men; for faith is the soul of religion, and works the body.

The Christian will find his parentheses for prayer even in the busiest hours of life.

You can detect Satan's schemes and overcome his world system.

You must learn that if you are a Christian, you will without a doubt experience all kinds of opposition and evil inclinations in the flesh. For when you have faith, there will be a hundred more evil thoughts and a hundred more temptations than before.

You might as well try to hear without ears or breathe without lungs, as to try to live a Christian life without the Spirit of God in your heart.

Faith is difficult to conquer and requires daily battles if it is to be maintained.

The heart of a Christian, like the moon, commonly suffers an eclipse when it is at the full, and that by the interposition of the earth.

Sin may rebel, but it shall never reign in any saint.

A wise man had said that your Christian life is like a three-legged stool. The legs are doctrine, experience and practice, which is obedience; and you, will not stay upright unless all three are there. In recent years many Christians have not kept these three together.

We only have victory over satan when we walk in the Spirit in Christ Jesus.