Marvin J. Ashton Quotes

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

Despair lames most people, but it wakes others fully up.

God show me the way because the Devil trying to break me down

You have to expect spiritual warfare whenever you stand up for righteousness or call attention to basic values. It's just a matter of light battling the darkness. But the light wins every time. You can't throw enough darkness on light to put it out.

I always intended the title, 'WARRIOR,' to be about spiritual warfare and warrior lives outside of the cage.

I personally claim no special insight into Satan's methods, but I have at times been able to identify his influence and his actions in my life and in the lives of others. When I was on my first mission, Satan sought to divert me from my future path and, if possible, to destroy my usefulness in the Lord's work.

You must never tire fighting Satan.

I've got that resilient thing inside me. But I wasn't a happy bunny.

Ministers of God's choosing are engaged in a great work. They are warring not merely against men, but Satan and his angels.

There has always been discouragement, negativism, and temptation in the world because of Lucifer.

Life is a hard fight, a struggle, a wrestling with the principle of evil, hand to hand, foot to foot. Every inch of the way is disputed. The night is given us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power. The day, to use the strength which has been given us, to go forth to work with it till the evening.

The devil is in constant conspiracy against a preacher who really prays, for it has been said that what a minister is in his prayer closet is what he is, no more, no less.

We cannot know what prayer is for until we know that life is war.

I find it most true that the greatest temptation outside of hell is to live without temptations; if water stands, it rots; faith is the better for the sharp winter storm in its face and grace withers without adversity. The devil is but God's master fencer to teach us to handle our weapons.

The opposite of having faith is having self-pity.

The soul has to find and hold its ground against hostile forces, sometimes embodied in ideas which frequently deny its very existence, and which indeed often seem to be trying to annul it altogether.

Fear is the enemy of hope.

If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride, because it shows you trust in your own powers.

Happiness takes work. It doesn't always fall off trees or come easily. You really have to be someone that doesn't fall prey to being sad. I don't want sad, I can't be sad, I don't want to be about sad; I avoid sad. It inherently envelops you, so do everything that you can to escape it all the time.

Satan, the Hinderer, may build a barrier about us, but he can never roof us in, so that we cannot look up.

I once heard someone say that prayer is more than words. It's a stance you take, a position you claim. You throw your body against the door to keep the demons from advancing and stay put until they go away.

If Satan can defeat you in your thoughts then he can defeat you anywhere else as well.

You only beat me if you get me to hate.

The project you are most resisting carries your greatest growth.

Resentment opens no door and breeds no courage.