The West is even more apprehensive about Islam than it was about communism, because while it knows how to deal with material challenges, it has no idea how to go about facing a spiritual challenge.
Perhaps the image you have of the devil is a cartoon of a man in a red suit with horns a pointy tale and a pitch fork, Satan would love for you to think of him as a harmless cartoon character, but don't be fooled... Satan is anything but harmless.
Nothing is of greater threat to the enemy than a believer with the Word of God living and active upon her tongue, readily applied to any situation.
The greatest threat to your ministry, dear brothers, is that you lose your joy in God.
You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.
Ill tell you, Mr. Thomas, why some Christians are afraid of me. They're not sure that what they believe is really true. If they were sure, I wouldn't be a threat to them at all.
the biggest threat to the religious experience may well come from organized religion itself.
We need not invite the Devil to our table; he is too ready to come without being asked. The air all about us is filled with demons.
We have a religious renaissance today in America, as many people say. I would say this religious renaissance, ninety percent of it is the greatest danger true religious experience has ever been confronted with.
Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.
It is an awful, an appalling thought, that we may be, this moment and every moment, in the presence of malignant spirits.
Satan . . . is as dangerous as we allow him to be. His primary weapon is deceit, and he uses it to prevent Christians from exercising the authority that is truly theirs in this world.
