Spiritual Defeat Quotes

What I am is a heretic who's recanted and, thereby, in everyone's eyes, saved his soul. Everyone's eyes but one, who knows deep down inside that all he has saved is his skin.

We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate.

One of the most critical reasons believers experience defeat is because we categorize only a few areas of our lives as Christ's arena.

Consider that it is not failing in this or that attempt to come to Christ, but a giving-over of your endeavors, that will be your ruin.

Prayerless people cut themselves off from God's prevailing power, and the frequent result is the familiar feeling of being overwhelmed, overrun, beaten down, pushed around, defeated. Surprising numbers of people are willing to settle for lives like that.

If the Gospels were truly the pattern of God’s activity, then defeat was only the beginning.

For generations, the body of Christ has been defeated and put under a constant siege of condemnation from the accuser because they believe wrongly that the Holy Spirit convicts believers of their sins.

The deadliest blow the enemy of the human soul can strike is to do fury honor. . . . Official acceptance is the one unmistakable symptom that salvation is beaten again, and is the one surest sign of fatal misunderstanding, and is the kiss of Judas.

The gospel is for the defeated, not the dominant.

The only true disability is a crushed spirit

You are engaged in a work so spiritual, so far above all human power, that to forget the Spirit is to ensure defeat.

When you've been battered down and battered down and battered down, your spirit gets broken.