Eric Metaxas Quotes

Anyone who tells you to deny yourself is from Satan.

Satan would have you believe that happiness comes only as you surrender to his enticements, but one only needs to look at the shattered lives of those who violate God's laws to know why Satan is called the Father of Lies.

Every Christian in every time and place is going to be tempted by certain forms of heresy. I'm sure I'm tempted by my own.

Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. Fear comes by hearing and a hearing by the word of the devil. The lies of Satan.

I want to make people see that evil is seductive and that we need to be careful.

Satan is the master distracter. He is always working to keep us off track in our walk with God.

Our enemy, the devil, wants to control us, and his target is our will. The main way he tries to influence our will is through lying to us.

Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.

The devil is busy and trying to distort and adulterate the things that are the pure essence of God.

I'm not sure ministry can ever have the urgency it requires if it is not aware of evil, both externally and internally.

The Bible is full of warnings about false prophets and false messiahs. These satanically inspired people have appeared in almost every generation of history.

Very simply, our physical and spiritual safety lies in never even getting close to the line that separates light from dark, good from evil.

If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.

He incurs a fearful amount of guilt who in the least promotes the aim of the Evil One by trampling upon a tender conscience in a child.

Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old.

God requires his servants to walk in the light, and not cover their eyes that they may not discern the working of Satan.

The devil is a peace stealer, and he works hard to set us up to get upset. But we can learn how to change our approach so we don't live upset all of the time. And Jesus gives us the best example to follow.

The more sin is rationalized, the greater the possibility of destruction by Satan's wolves.

For a man, the soul of a woman is a preserving talisman, guarding him from moral infections; it is a power holding him to the straight path, a guide leading him back from the crooked to the straight. On the other hand, the soul of a woman can be his evil and ruin him forever.

The way Satan works is he offers you stuff that could look good to the eye and makes you feel comfortable, and if you follow that path all the worries and troubles will go away.

I share a warning. Satan is extremely good at blocking spiritual communication by inducing individuals, through temptation, to violate the laws upon which spiritual communication is founded. With some, he is able to convince them that they are not able to receive such guidance from the Lord.

Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.

When Satan cannot get a great sin in he will let a little one in, like the thief who goes and finds shutters all coated with iron and bolted inside. At last he sees a little window in a chamber. He cannot get in, so he puts a little boy in, that he may go round and open the back door. So the devil has always his little sins to carry about with him to go and open back doors for him, and we let one in and say, 'O, it is only a little one.' Yes, but how that little one becomes the ruin of the entire man!

Satan can make men dance upon the brink of hell as though they were on the verge of heaven.