Top 100 Quotes About Satan And God
#1. Anyone who believes in the power of God and the power of Satan can surely not be viewed as a pure monotheist.
Jurgen Moltmann
#2. You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.
Ian McEwan
#3. Let no one flatter himself; of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.
Saint Augustine
#4. Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.
Ignatius Of Antioch
#5. Always remember, no matter how big you get in life, God is still bigger; when you feel to be at your lowest point, Satan is still at the bottom.
Anthony Liccione
#7. The eternal duel between Ormuzd and Ahriman, God and Satan, is raging in my breast, which is one among their billion battlefields.
Mahatma Gandhi
#8. Him and God are supposed to be at war with each other. But if God hates sin and Satan punishes the sinners, aren't they working the same side of the street? Aren't the judge and the executioner on the same team?
Joe Hill
#9. Hell is only the Cringe Eternal and the Place of our Self's Undoing. When Nietzsche proclaimed "God is Dead!" he forgot to add that Satan is also dead and we are free from all that antique tat.
Grant Morrison
#10. Satan cannot win. Why not? Because he has denied God's sovereignty and disobeyed God's law. But Moses was told explicitly, God's blessings come only from obedience. Satan will not win because he has abandoned God's tool of dominion, biblical law.
Gary North
#11. Adam was the first man, Eve the first woman, Satan the first consultant, and God the first entrepreneur.
Dee Hock
#12. As postmillennialists, we believe we should see the kingdom of God advancing in this world spiritually and externally, and that we should continue to see that growth until the very end when Satan is loosed.
Robert Booth
#13. Well, God does not mean for us to be passive. He means for us to fight the fight of faith - the fight for joy. And the central strategy is to preach the gospel to yourself. This is war. Satan is preaching for sure. If we remain passive, we surrender the field to him.
John Piper
#14. The Bible teaches that Satan is the author of sin. Sin is the reason we have afflictions, including death. All of our problems and our suffering are a result of man's rebellion
against God. But God has provided a rescue in His Son.
Billy Graham
#15. The central feature of pride is enmity - enmity toward God and enmity toward our fellowmen. Enmity means "hatred toward, hostility to, or a state of opposition." It is the power by which Satan wishes to reign over us.
Ezra Taft Benson
#16. When you wake up to kingdom realities, you find that you are tracing the steps of both the Israelites and Jesus himself into the wilderness ... The wilderness is the place where God meets his people, Satan attacks, and kingdom allegiances are revealed. [Ed Welch, Running Scared, 118]
Edward T. Welch
#17. The Devil and woman have been allies against God from the beginning, ever since Satan first came to the first man in the form of a snake and whispered to Adam that true happiness was not to be found in prayer but in Eve's cunt.
Joe Hill
#18. Never ask another person's advice about anything God makes you decide before Him. If you ask advice, you will almost always side with Satan. " ... I did not immediately confer with flesh and blood ... " (Galatians 1:16).
Oswald Chambers
#19. If God rewards us on earth for good deeds - the Old Testament suggests it's so, and the Puritans certainly believed it - then maybe Satan rewards us for evil ones.
Stephen King
#20. The devil and his demons really do believe in God - and why wouldn't they? They understand that they are engaged in a cosmic battle of titanic proportions, and they know they are up against the Creator of the universe - a truth that makes them shudder. There are no atheists in hell!
Billy Graham
#21. I speak of plurality of wives as one of the most holy principles that God ever revealed to man, and all those who exercise an influence against it, unto whom it is taught, man or woman will be damned, and they and all who will be influenced by them, will suffer the buffetings of Satan in the flesh.
Heber C. Kimball
#22. We can ask ourselves why we invent God, and then, ten minutes later, we invent Satan - why? Because we need him; there's something fascinating about the other side of the coin.
Mads Mikkelsen
#23. After you have made a decision that is pleasing to God, the Devil may try to make you have second thoughts. Intensify your prayer time, meditation, and good deeds. For if Satan's temptations merely cause you to increase your efforts to grow in holiness, he'll have an incentive to leave you alone.
Ignatius Of Loyola
#24. Come boldly, O believer, for despite the whisperings of Satan and the doubtings of thine own heart, thou art greatly beloved.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#25. If the all powerful god controls satan he is an accomplice, and if he doesn't, he is not an all powerful god.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#26. If you go forward in the spirit of the original apostles and followers of Jesus Christ, trusting not in man but in the living God, he will enable you to pull down the strong holds of sin and Satan, and that work by which he is pleased will prosper in your hands.
Adam Clarke
#27. I believe we are our own gods, and our own devils. Good and evil doesn't exist out there in the world, it exists in each and every one of us.
K.A. Hill
#28. God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#29. When that glorious day comes, sin and death will be destroyed and Satan will be banished. All the strife and hatred and suffering and death that twist and scar this world will vanish, and the Lord's Prayer will be fulfilled: God's will will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Billy Graham
#30. It's Satan's delight to tell me that once he's got me, he will keep me. But at that moment I can go back to God. And I know that if I confess my sins, God is faithful and just to forgive me.
Alan Redpath
#31. God's strength is rooted in being faithful to his true Self, in just Being good. The Devil's strength depends on synergies, agreements, cooperation and beliefs.
Robin Sacredfire
#32. Perhaps evil is the crucible of goodness ... and perhaps even Satan - Satan, in spite of himself - somehow serves to work out the will of God.
William Peter Blatty
#33. God and Satan alike are essentially human figures, the one a projection of ourselves, the other of our enemies.
Bertrand Russell
#34. God's followers need to know the truth He sets forth in His Word so that we can confidently discern between His truth and Satan's lies.
Billy Graham
#35. According to some Christian teachings, Jesus and God ascended above the sun, the moon and the stars leaving us to be slaughtered by Satan, and then told us to come and seek them, where it would never be possible for any human to reach. What kind of a God would be so cruel to His children?
Nicky Verster
#36. Since men's nature is prone to hypocrisy, it is easy for Satan to persuade them that the true worship of God consists in ceremonies and outward discipline; men
John Calvin
#37. Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.
John Bunyan
#38. Radiation has properties of both God and Satan. Like God as the correct exposures give excellent health. Like Satan because too little or too much will make you sick and may lead to disease and premature death.
Steven Magee
#39. Satan's primary temptation strategy is to try and make us forget what God has said about us and to evaluate our standing before God by some other criteria
J.D. Greear
#40. The Bible is intensely practical, and one of the reasons God gave it to us is so we'll be better prepared to deal with life's problems and temptations. All too often we respond to these in ways that don't reflect Christ ... when we do that, Satan is the winner and the cause of Christ suffers.
Billy Graham
#41. One of Satan's most frequently used deceptions is the notion that the commandments of God are meant to restrict freedom and limit happiness.
Ezra Taft Benson
#42. Satan has no power over us except as we give it to him. God never forces us to do right, and Satan has no power to force us to do wrong.
Sterling W. Sill
#43. The devil is the god of this world and he has blinded our eyes.
Billy Graham
#44. Satan exalted himself above God and endeavored to get man to doubt the reliability of God's Word.
Billy Graham
#45. All the time the joke is that the word "mine" in its fully possessive sense cannot be uttered by a human being about anything. In the long run either [Satan] or God will say "mine" of each thing that exists, and specially of each man.
C.S. Lewis
#46. One of the devil's methods is to attack everyone ... He knows that the Word of God is powerful, and he will try to keep you from it.
Billy Graham
#47. But here steps in Satan, the eternal rebel, the first freethinker and the emancipator of worlds. He makes man ashamed of his bestial ignorance and obedience; he emancipates him, stamps upon his brow the seal of liberty and humanity, in urging him to disobey and eat of the fruit of knowledge.
Mikhail Bakunin
#48. If I were Satan and my ultimate goal was to thwart God's kingdom and purposes, one of my main strategies would be to get churchgoers to ignore the Holy Spirit.
Francis Chan
#49. The greatest victory of God took place when Christ, having overcome sin, conquered death, and put Satan to flight, was lifted up to heaven in majesty, that he might reign gloriously over the church. Therefore,
John Calvin
#50. The fact is that far more crime and child abuse has been committed by zealots in the name of God, Jesus and Mohammed than has ever been committed in the name of Satan. Many people don't like that statement, but few can argue with it.
Carl Sagan
#51. Satan's power is ministerial, appointed by God for the service and benefit of the saints. It
William Gurnall
#52. Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast and ends with the feast. The other of Satan, which starts with the feast and ends with the headache.
Fulton J. Sheen
#53. Satan's method has often been to imitate God.
Satan is still using this form of deception, and often his representatives are being disguised as ministers of righteousness.
Billy Graham
#54. The end and design of all that is written in Scripture is to call us back from the spirit of Satan, the flesh, and the world, to full dependence on and obedience to the Spirit of God.
Andrew Murray
#55. The devil strains every nerve to secure the souls which belong to Christ. We should not grudge our toil in wresting them from Satan and giving them back to God.
Saint Sebastian
#56. God's livery is a very plain one; but its wearers have good reason to be content. If it have not so much gold-lace about it as Satan's, it keeps out foul weather better, and is besides a great deal cheaper.
James Russell Lowell
#57. Fear of poverty. Scholars have said that nurturing this fear is tantamount to harboring a negative opinion about God, the Exalted, who has revealed, "Satan threatens you with poverty, and he commands you to immorality. But God promises you His forgiveness and bounty" (QUR'AN , 2:268).
Hamza Yusuf
#58. Satan's temptation may be summed up as appealing to man in this way: it made man desire to have what God had forbidden, to know what God had not revealed, and to be what God had not intended for him to be
Henry Clarence Thiessen
#59. Satan will battle you with doubt and unbelief, but God has victory waiting for you if you'll keep trusting and believing Him.
Joyce Meyer
#60. We can't point at an image of an evil god, such as Satan, and blame it for our faults and weaknesses. We can't blame fate. Every second of each day we're creating our futures, shaping the courses of our lives.
Scott Cunningham
#61. Satan's strategies to stop the church will ultimately serve to spread the church. And Satan's strategies to inflict earthly pain in your life will ultimately serve to increase eternal glory with your God; 'Light momentary affliction.'
David Platt
#62. The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider ... the riders contend for its possession.
Martin Luther
#63. Satan is cunning and man is weak, but God rules the heart of his faithful, and does what he will.
Edouard Rene De Laboulaye
#64. Giving thanks is that: making the canyon of pain into a megaphone to proclaim the ultimate goodness of God when Satan and all the world would sneer at us to recant.
Ann Voskamp
#65. And when and Eve submitted unto Satan they are the ones that empowered Satan. In a sense Man made Satan. God created Lucifer but Man made Satan.
Andrew Wommack
#66. As long as we pray, love, suffer, and herald the good news that Jesus is King, we will continue to see the kingdom of God thunder against the kingdom of Satan. We need to make sure we're fighting in the right war with the right means.
Preston Sprinkle
#67. The Bible explains that Satan is real, nurses a serious grudge and has impressive power. But having been created, he has limitations. He can never be equal to God in anything."
Kristine McGuire, An Insider's Guide to Spiritual Warfare, Chapter 3, "Know Your Enemy.
Kristine McGuire
#68. Your soul was bought for a price far greater than the world on the cross; everything Satan offers you in exchange for your soul is from the world and absolutely worthless. John 3:16
Felix Wantang
#69. The devil has a thousand names," said Crews, voice rising, "but the name he takes the most pride in is Prince of Lies, because he is such a convincing fraud. Even God himself was fooled by Satan once, so what hope do we have to tell what's truth and what's false?
Robert Ferrigno
#70. Ministers of God's choosing are engaged in a great work. They are warring not merely against men, but Satan and his angels.
Ellen G. White
#71. I was in the death struggle with self: God and Satan fought for my soul those three long hours. God conquered - now I have only one doubt left - which of the twain was God?
Aleister Crowley
#72. Where God is like the sun, the Devil is like a raindrop. There is no 'God vs. Satan' because they aren't even that close in power and authority. The former is very patient; the latter is at mercy.
Criss Jami
#73. ROM16.20 And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
Anonymous
#74. Satan promises the best, but pays with the worst; he promises honor, and pays with disgrace; he promises pleasure, and pays with pain; he promises profit, and pays with loss, he promises life, and pays with death. But God pays as he promises; all his payments are made in pure gold.
Thomas Brooks
#75. We must learn to live on the heavenly side and look at things from above. To contemplate all things as God sees them, as Christ beholds them, overcomes sin, defies Satan, dissolves perplexities, lifts us above trials, separates us from the world and conquers fear of death.
A.B. Simpson
#76. There is one thing the power of God and the power of Satan have in common: Neither can influence us unless we allow them to.
Sheri Dew
#77. Satan is masterful at using just enough of God's truth to capture a person's attention and then mix it with his devious potion that will lead [believers] astray.
Billy Graham
#78. To be evil at all, Satan needs good things he can abuse, things like intelligence, power and will. Those good things come from God.
J. Budziszewski
#79. ... if God hates sin and Satan punishes the sinners, aren't they working the same side of the street?
Joe Hill
#80. Darkness is the world governed by Satan
Light is the world governed by God.
Which world will your live in ?
Lailah Gifty Akita
#81. God has ordained that Satan have a long leash with God holding on to the leash because he knows that when we walk in and out of those temptations, struggling with both the physical effects that they bring and the moral effects that they bring, more of God's glory will shine.
John Piper
#82. Much of Satan's time is spent trying to make you remember what God has already forgotten. Reconcile, rejoice, and look forward.
Mark Hart
#83. The Scripture teaches that popularity with the world means death. Satan's most effective tool is conformity and compromise. He is aware that one man standing in the midst of a pagan people
can move more people in the direction of God than thousands of insipid professors of religion.
Billy Graham
#84. Jump to one time, late one night, driving between Nowhere, Wyoming, and WhoKnowsWhere, Montana, when Seth says how your being born makes your parents God. You owe them your life, and they can control you. "Then puberty makes you Satan," he says, "just because you want something better." J
Chuck Palahniuk
#85. That night God and Satan fought long hours for his soul. And God conquered. It was only left to be determined which of the two was God.
Alexander Theroux
#86. Satan is a "roaring lion, [who] walketh about, seeking whom he may devour." And he will devour us unless we "put on the whole armour [or power] of God, that we may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil." (See 1 Peter 5 and Ephesians 6)
Sheri Dew
#87. Have you ever had a "worst mom ever" day? Take heart, so have we all. Take my friend's advice. Apologize to your children. Ask God for forgiveness. Get over it and stop letting Satan drag you down. Spend time with the Lord getting a new attitude, and He'll help you leave the dams to the beavers!
Lysa TerKeurst
#88. The devil is merely a fallen angel, and when God lost Satan he lost one of his best lieutenants.
Walter Lippmann
#89. If God and his grace do not rule us, sin and Satan will have possession of us.
Matthew Henry
#91. In essence, Satan doesn't want you to believe what God thinks of Himself and what God thinks about you.
Ralph Harris
#92. Satan will do everything he can to divide Christians and destroy our witness. Only the Holy Spirit can subdue our old nature and overcome it with God's love.
Billy Graham
#93. Satan delights in homosexual perversion because it not only exists outside of marriage, but it also defiles God' very image reflected as male and female.
Andrew Comiskey
#94. When [Satan] undertook to draw Eve away from God, he did not hit her with a stick, but with an idea. It was with an idea that God could not be trusted and that she must act on her own to secure her own well-being.
Dallas Willard
#95. If Satan can use our everyday experiences, both big and small, to cripple our true identity, then he renders God's people totally ineffective for the kingdom of Christ.
Lysa TerKeurst
#96. God is light, we are told, and Hell is outer darkness. But look at a desert mountain stripped bare by the sun, and you learn only geography. Watch darkness claim it, and for a moment you may grasp why God had to create Satan - or man to create both.
Colin Fletcher
#97. Satan is behind the theory of evolution. Satan hates God and us. Satan is the father of all lies. So he wants nothing more than to make every human being alive believe lies about God, ourselves and how and why we exist.
Lisa Bedrick
#98. It is Satan who is the God of our planet and the only God.
H. P. Blavatsky
#99. The Immaculate alone has from God the promise of victory over Satan. She seeks souls that will consecrate themselves entirely to her, that will become in her hands forceful instruments for the defeat of Satan and the spread of God's kingdom.
Maximilian Kolbe
#100. And prefers to sit out a problem rather than sweat out a solution. That nonchalant and perfunctory attitude is a powerful tool of satan in his efforts to retard the growth of God's Kingdom.
Myles Munroe
