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“A god who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice, and invented hell--mouths mercy, and invented hell--mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people, and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him!”
― Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger

“I couldn't stop the Devil from prowling around my table, but in Jesus' name I definitely did have the choice whether I allowed the Enemy to sit down.”
― Louie Giglio, Don't Give the Enemy a Seat at Your Table Study Guide with DVD: It's Time to Win the Battle of Your Mind

“Beware, for she is here!
Beautiful and delicate as a rose�
making a sweet sound as she wanders into the house.
But behind the façade, lies a wretched spirit.
Waiting to come to full force.”
― Keran Pantth Joshi, It Follows You

“Sin is a mirage, always overpromising and underdelivering.

The Enemy works in your life by luring and lying. He promises things he can't fulfill. He challenges God's truth. He attacks God's character and intentions.”
― Louie Giglio, Don't Give the Enemy a Seat at Your Table: It's Time to Win the Battle of Your Mind...

“True love logically gives the premise of wishing for the best that life can offer; â€� but [this] desire is something [we give] to the person we love and not to ourselves. â€� Today, the words, "I love you," are inexplicably mistaken for "I want you unconditionally for me alone;" and that is the root of all jealousy that has cost so many lives, ideals, and happiness.”
― Pierre de Lasenic, Sexual Mysteries: Oriental Love & Sexual Magic

“t’s staring at youâ€� from that dark corner of the room.
Slowly and steady, it wants you there...
smouldering you bit by bit”
― Keran Pantth Joshi, It Follows You

“Better a curse from God than a blessing from Satan.”
― Criss Jami

“The Devil will get you talking about heaven until you're out of breath, but what he really doesn't want you talking about is The Kingdom of God and its power here and now on the earth.”
― Sebastien Richard, Kingdom Fundamentals: What the Kingdom of God Means and What it Means for You | A Thorough and Biblical Exposition of the Kingdom of Heaven as Preached by Jesus

“Our poverty in spirit makes us vulnerable to the IOU seduction of darkness.â€�

Excerpt From: Paul Renfroe. “Nobody Sees This YOU.”
― Paul Renfroe, Nobody Sees This You: How to Live as a Spirit in the Unseen Realm

“God’s habit of concealing mysteries is how He proves whether we would be kings in His kingdom.â€�

Excerpt From: Paul Renfroe. “Nobody Sees This YOU.”
― Paul Renfroe, Nobody Sees This You: How to Live as a Spirit in the Unseen Realm

“all of us are shepherded whether we realize it or not. Your shepherd might not be Jesus. But something is going to lead you.”
― Louie Giglio, Don't Give the Enemy a Seat at Your Table: It's Time to Win the Battle of Your Mind...

“In whatever way the Devil gains access to your table, his goals are always the same. He wants to gain access to your mind so he can destroy you. He wants to get inside your head so harmful thoughts can be planted within you. Those thoughts will grow unchecked and spill out into actions. He wants you to be overtaken by wickedness. He wants to steal everything that is valuable from you. He wants to kill your relationship with God. He wants to cause division between you and the people who care for you. The Devil is not gentle - not in the long run. He was 'a murderer from the beginning' (John 8:44), and he sets snares that capture people so they do his will (2 Timothy 2:26). The Devil is vicious and cruel, and he's always prowling around 'like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour' (1 Peter 5:8).

That someone is you.”
― Louie Giglio, Don't Give the Enemy a Seat at Your Table: It's Time to Win the Battle of Your Mind...

“The Enemy is great at sowing seeds of doubt, at working to undermine your confidence about what God says is true about you.”
― Louie Giglio, Don't Give the Enemy a Seat at Your Table Study Guide with DVD: It's Time to Win the Battle of Your Mind

“The spiral begins this way: a temptation or thought that's not from God comes into your mind. Stop right there. Identify that reality. If a harmful thought enters your mind, it's not from God. We must be awakened to this. Those thoughts are from the Enemy, who often uses our own desires against us.”
― Louie Giglio, Don't Give the Enemy a Seat at Your Table: It's Time to Win the Battle of Your Mind...

“Our Enemy hates God and wants to destroy everything he can that bears God's image. Be aware of this! The Enemy wants to kill your dreams. He wants to bury the purpose God has place inside of you. He wants to steal your sense of self-worth and confidence and hope. He wants to destroy your marriage and erode your relationship with your kids. He wants to ruin your good reputation and slander the name of Christ in the process. He's got all kinds of time and no mercy. The way he's going to start you down this road of destruction is by putting a thought into your mind that's contrary to God's best for your life and letting it entice you and fester.”
― Louie Giglio, Don't Give the Enemy a Seat at Your Table: It's Time to Win the Battle of Your Mind...

“...when a harmful thought or temptation comes into our minds, we have a choice. We can either discard that thought or entertain it. If we discard it, good. But if we enetertain it, that's when the Devil sits at our table.”
― Louie Giglio, Don't Give the Enemy a Seat at Your Table: It's Time to Win the Battle of Your Mind...

“as soon as you eat the fruit and hit guilt, shame, frustration, the Enemy changes roles. He shifts from being the enticer and promiser to becoming the accuser and the condemner.”
― Louie Giglio, Don't Give the Enemy a Seat at Your Table: It's Time to Win the Battle of Your Mind...

“Do we actually think that we have the power to subjugate evil and wrestle it into blind obedience as some whipped puppy? For if evil can convince us of this, it has ‘subjugatedâ€� us and ‘wrestledâ€� us into blind obedience without us having any idea that we just got whipped.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“O Satan, my Master, I give myself unto thee forever!" How I regret not remembering the name of the nun who, having written these words with a nail dipped in her own blood, deserves to figure in an anthology of prayer and concision.”
― Emil M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“The evil is hereâ€� sharing your bed and your home.
Eating you bit by bit till IT fully becomes you and
shares your body too”
― Keran Pantth Joshi, It Follows You

“It waited for youâ€�. Days…months…years…and decade.
And now that the curse has found you�
It’s going to change your destiny forever”
― Keran Pantth Joshi, It Follows You

“The monster has been summoned.
Now outside my door� waiting for me to open.
He visits daily, and won’t stop.
Until he gets what he wants- My soul!”
― Keran Pantth Joshi, It Follows You

“You thought it was a blessingâ€�
But hiding behind was a curse�
Taking away everything�
The only thing you can do? Wait for it to be unraveled fully”
― Keran Pantth Joshi, It Follows You

“Beware! For the woods are dark.
They are forbidden� they are dangerous.
They are full of ravenous spirits!
Yet, he sets out� in the precarious forest.
Where he isn’t aloneâ€�”
― Keran Pantth Joshi, It Follows You

“Subliminally you foray into its realm...
And slowly it creeps into your mind helm.
Whispers you hear from that forest, that house,
Playing little games you long to douse.
Lurking beneath the light of the moon,
Chill in the air and you hear it croon.
Shivers are running down your spine,
“IT� and you, now intertwine.
Choking and haunting and crushing your spirit,
Your laughter, your phobia.... nobody’s in it.
Release me you say, release you it may,
It growls away... I am here to stay.
That little shadow, that creepy figure,
It’s there in the corner, it’s getting bigger.
Outside your bedroom, out in the hallway...
The gallows are waiting.... the price you pay.
Like the funeral pyre, it lights you inside,
The embers that stream through your eyes now wide.
Crawling and gnawing it’s tormenting your peace,
Snatching your life till its existence cease..”
― Keran Pantth Joshi, It Follows You

“The very idea that a demon—even Satan himself—could be reduced to the status of a moving planchette, performing tricks and answering trivial questions for a group of college students, is in itself a fundamentally comic concept, however many risks the tradition says accompany it.”
― Bill Ellis, Lucifer Ascending: The Occult in Folklore and Popular Culture

“...that is how our enemy operates. He prowls around like a roaring lion. But the important word is like. He's an imposter. Jesus is the Lion of the tribe of Judah. And when He roars, everything is shaken. All authority under heaven and on earth is His. And we are His children. Why don't we live like it, love like it, give like it, serve like it, and pray like it?”
― Mark Batterson, Draw the Circle: The 40 Day Prayer Challenge

“Satan wants you for a storm cloud, baby.”
― Adrian Mathews, The Apothecary’s House

“Santa," said the little boy in Mack's arms.
"Satan," Mack corrected him.
"Satan! Satan!”
― Alisa Kwitney, Flirting in Cars

“What is unseen to us is not inactive. God revealed in the Bible a large, very active, and invisible population of spirits. They outnumber mortal people. When we are born as spirits by faith in Jesus, we may perceive this population. Among us are spirits of several kinds.â€�

Excerpt From: Paul Renfroe. “Nobody Sees This YOU.”
― Paul Renfroe, Nobody Sees This You: How to Live as a Spirit in the Unseen Realm