Nikos Kazantzakis Quotes

God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers.

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

Believe it or not, when you fast in the Spirit, God makes you more equipped to deal with hunger, irritability, and temptation.

My principal anguish, and the wellspring of all my joys and sorrows, has been the incessant merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh.

For a number of years, I struggled and put distance between God and me. But He was faithful and patient and provided gradual healing and strength.

I got freed of all of my addictions January 16, 2009, but at that point I didn't do a full surrender to Jesus. I didn't give a full surrender until February 18, 2017, so there's quite a story in between where God was still chasing me.

Boy, it is not fun suffering in this body of weak flesh, but Jesus is straightening out all my crooked places.

He wants to see whether we are capable of overcoming out base instincts, of killing the Satan within ourselves. We have no right to despair. And if he punishes us mercilessly, it is a sign that He loves us that much more.

The mind is either at war with God or it is being renewed. There is no middle ground.

It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means.

But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both.

I discipline churchgoers with godly lessons and sharp words if they do not change their ways. My goal is to open their hearts so that they seek forgiveness.

When I got saved, God became my art agent.

Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself.

If churches around the world would grasp the revolutionary truth that Christ's transforming power always comes through sacrifice and weakness, it would dramatically alter the landscape of the global church.

With this sweet hope of ultimate acceptance with God, I have always enjoyed much cheerfulness before men; but I have at the same time laboured incessantly to cultivate the deepest humiliation before God.

Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.

Little by little he came to recognize the difference between the spirits that agitated him, one from the enemy and one from God.

I have discovered that just because we grow weaker physically as we age, it doesn't mean that we must grow weaker spiritually.

I'm a sinner just like everybody else and I have my faults and I've been through my dark times in my life to where I wasn't walking the walk and talking the talk, or I may have been talking the talk, but I wasn't walking the walk.

We have peace with God as soon as we believe, but not always with ourselves. The pardon may be past the prince's hand and seal, and yet not put into the prisoner's hand.

Christianity is a battle not a dream.

I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

I testify that inspiration can be the spring for every person's hope, guidance, and strength. It is one of the magnified treasures of life. It involves coming to the infinite knowledge of God.