--- title: "16 Enemy Wants Quotes by 12 authors" description: "Browse 16 Enemy Wants quotes by 12 authors. Discover the best Enemy Wants sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/498/c-s-lewis-121_decide_to-decide-what-the-best-use-of-it-is-you_2721060.jpg" --- > [“To decide what the best use of it is, you must ask what use the Enemy wants to make of it, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis-2/to-decide-what-the-best-use-of-it-is-you-must-ask-what-use-the-enemy/) [C.S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis-2/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/498/c-s-lewis-121_decide_to-decide-what-the-best-use-of-it-is-you_2721060.jpg) > [There is a rule of Sharia: If the enemy wants to suppress you, you are supposed to put up a strong resistance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/akhmad-kadyrov/there-is-a-rule-of-sharia-if-the-enemy-wants-to-suppress-you-you-are/) [Akhmad Kadyrov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/akhmad-kadyrov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f0a/akhmad-kadyrov-32508_enemy_there-is-a-rule-of-sharia-if-the-enemy-w_384085.png) > [“The deeper you go in ministry, the more the enemy wants to be an irritant in your marriage.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-thoman/the-deeper-you-go-in-ministry-the-more-the-enemy-wants-to-be-an/) [Kevin Thoman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-thoman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2f5/kevin-thoman-41511_marriage_the-deeper-you-go-in-ministry-the-more-t_2965623.jpg) > [“To beat your enemy, you must understand what your enemy wants.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sean-chercover/to-beat-your-enemy-you-must-understand-what-your-enemy-wants/) [Sean Chercover](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sean-chercover/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f50/sean-chercover-15822_learning_to-beat-your-enemy-you-must-understand-w_920603.jpg) > [“There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a human’s mind against the Enemy. He wants men to be concerned with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/there-is-nothing-like-suspense-and-anxiety-for-barricading-a-human-s/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6b6/anonymous-1_anxiety_there-is-nothing-like-suspense-and-anxie_2103326.jpg) > [Your enemy wants to strip you, make sport of you, and merchandise your body, but your heavenly Father wants to clothe you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nancy-leigh-demoss/your-enemy-wants-to-strip-you-make-sport-of-you-and-merchandise-your/) [Nancy Leigh DeMoss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nancy-leigh-demoss/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6d0/nancy-leigh-demoss-8617_beauty_your-enemy-wants-to-strip-you-make-sport_1068833.jpg) > [Grunts on the line, where the enemy wants them dead, still goof off - even knowing that by letting their guard down…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-hackworth/grunts-on-the-line-where-the-enemy-wants-them-dead-still-goof-off/) [David Hackworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-hackworth/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a21/david-hackworth-25449_dead_grunts-on-the-line-where-the-enemy-wants_1559359.jpg) > [The enemy wants to steal our peace and keep us stirred up, anxious, fearful, upset, and always in a stance of waiting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stormie-omartian/the-enemy-wants-to-steal-our-peace-and-keep-us-stirred-up-anxious/) [Stormie Omartian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stormie-omartian/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aae/stormie-omartian-3743_anxious_the-enemy-wants-to-steal-our-peace-and-k_2681176.png) > [Find the enemy that wants to end this experiment (in American democracy) and kill every one of them until they're so sick…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-mattis/find-the-enemy-that-wants-to-end-this-experiment-in-american/) [James Mattis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-mattis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/559/james-mattis-9515_american-democracy_find-the-enemy-that-wants-to-end-this-ex_1186746.png) > [“The nature of the enemy's warfare in your life is to cause you to become discouraged and to cast away your confidence.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-sorge/the-nature-of-the-enemy-s-warfare-in-your-life-is-to-cause-you-to/) [Bob Sorge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-sorge/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/70b/bob-sorge-27851_cast-away_the-nature-of-the-enemy-s-warfare-in-you_2447732.jpg) > [The Enemy wants to bring the man to a state of mind in which he could design the best cathedral in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/the-enemy-wants-to-bring-the-man-to-a-state-of-mind-in-which-he-could/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ca8/anonymous-1_being-the-best_the-enemy-wants-to-bring-the-man-to-a-st_2016447.jpg) > [“The last thing the enemy wants to see is Jesus and His tribe of twenty-first-century, Internet-savvy followers gaining ground online. So he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-birdsong/the-last-thing-the-enemy-wants-to-see-is-jesus-and-his-tribe-of/) [Toni Birdsong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toni-birdsong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e4e/toni-birdsong-172701_internet_the-last-thing-the-enemy-wants-to-see-is_2058571.jpg) > [“The enemy wants you to believe that you are powerless over the circumstance of life, that God or no one else loves…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michelle-word-hollis/the-enemy-wants-you-to-believe-that-you-are-powerless-over-the/) [Michelle Word Hollis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michelle-word-hollis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7af/michelle-word-hollis-51090_divide-and-conquer_the-enemy-wants-you-to-believe-that-you_1737291.jpg) > [“To us a human is primarily food; our aim is the absorption of its will into ours, the increase of our own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis-2/to-us-a-human-is-primarily-food-our-aim-is-the-absorption-of-its-will/) [C.S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis-2/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/72d/c-s-lewis-121_nature-of-man_to-us-a-human-is-primarily-food-our-aim_475978.jpg) > [“One must face the fact that all the talk about His love for men, and His service being perfect freedom, is not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis-2/one-must-face-the-fact-that-all-the-talk-about-his-love-for-men-and/) [C.S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis-2/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/94a/c-s-lewis-121_freedom_one-must-face-the-fact-that-all-the-talk_496137.jpg) > [“To anticipate the Enemy’s strategy, we must consider His aims. The Enemy wants to bring the man to a state of mind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis-2/to-anticipate-the-enemy-s-strategy-we-must-consider-his-aims-the/) [C.S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis-2/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/26b/c-s-lewis-121_long-run_to-anticipate-the-enemy-s-strategy-we-mu_804418.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/enemy-wants/#itemlist", "name": "Enemy Wants Quotes", "numberOfItems": 16, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“To decide what the best use of it is, you must ask what use the Enemy wants to make of it, and then do the opposite.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "C.S. 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So he turns up the volume, complicates the simple, and amplifies the yammering so we don't know which way is up. He is the cultivator of fear, paranoia, and intimidation. He is the master of confusion and the king of anxiety. His goal is the same as it was in the garden. He exists to silence God's message of hope and genuine relationship with His children. 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I call this the Divide and Conquer Strategy; I believe this one of the enemy's most successful strategies. Simply because, if he can make you feel and believe that you are unloved, not needed, and alone; you become hopeless! But the enemy is a liar! and the Bible calls Him the Father of all lies”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Michelle Word Hollis" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michelle-word-hollis/the-enemy-wants-you-to-believe-that-you-are-powerless-over-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7af/michelle-word-hollis-51090_divide-and-conquer_the-enemy-wants-you-to-believe-that-you_1737291.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7af/michelle-word-hollis-51090_divide-and-conquer_the-enemy-wants-you-to-believe-that-you_1737291.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7af/michelle-word-hollis-51090_divide-and-conquer_the-enemy-wants-you-to-believe-that-you_1737291.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The enemy wants you to believe that you are powerless over the circumstance of life, that God or no one else…” — Michelle Word Hollis", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 14, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“To us a human is primarily food; our aim is the absorption of its will into ours, the increase of our own area of selfhood at its expense. But the obedience which the Enemy demands of men is quite a different thing. One must face the fact that all the talk about His love for men, and His service being perfect freedom, is not (as one would gladly believe) mere propaganda, but an appalling truth. He really does want to fill the universe with a lot of loathsome little replicas of Himself—creatures whose life, on its miniature scale, will be qualitatively like His own, not because He has absorbed them but because their wills freely conform to His. We want cattle who can finally become food; He wants servants who can finally become sons. We want to suck in, He wants to give out. We are empty and would be filled; He is full and flows over. Our war aim is a world in which Our Father Below has drawn all other beings into himself: the Enemy wants a world full of beings united to Him but still distinct. And”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "C.S. Lewis" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis-2/to-us-a-human-is-primarily-food-our-aim-is-the-absorption-of-its-will/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/72d/c-s-lewis-121_nature-of-man_to-us-a-human-is-primarily-food-our-aim_475978.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/72d/c-s-lewis-121_nature-of-man_to-us-a-human-is-primarily-food-our-aim_475978.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/72d/c-s-lewis-121_nature-of-man_to-us-a-human-is-primarily-food-our-aim_475978.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“To us a human is primarily food; our aim is the absorption of its will into ours, the increase of our own…” — C.S. 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He wants to kill their animal self-love as soon as possible; but it is His long-term policy, I fear, to restore to them a new kind of self-love—a charity and gratitude for all selves, including their own; when they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "C.S. 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