Contending Quote by J. C. Ryle Download Open image “We must wrestle earnestly in prayer, like men contending with a deadly enemy for life.” — J. C. Ryle ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Contending Enemy Inspirational Life Men Prayer
We must focus on prayer as the main thrust to accomplish God's will and purpose on earth. The forces against us have never been… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“The weapons of our warfare can only be exercised in the place of prayer.” — Pedro Okoro Copy Share Image
The battle for our lives, and the lives and souls of our children, our husbands, our friends, our families, our neighbors, and our nation is waged on our knees. When we don't pray, it's like sitting on the sidelines watching those we love and care about scrambling through a war zone, getting shot at from every angle. When we do… — Stormie Omartian Copy Share
It is in the field of prayer that life's critical battles are lost or won...In prayer we bring our spiritual enemies into the Presence… — John Henry Jowett Copy Share Image
Prayer is a weapon, a mighty weapon in a terrible conflict. Our prayers are to be a continual, conscious, earnest effort of battle, the… — Peter Forsyth Copy Share Image
It is in the field of prayer that life's critical battles are lost or won. We must conquer all our circumstances there. We must first of all bring them there. We must survey them there. We must master them there. In prayer we bring our spiritual enemies into the Presence of God and we fight them there. Have you tried… — John Henry Jowett Copy Share
“What victory the enemy has in winning us over to prayerlessness! He would rather we do anything than pray. He’d rather see us serve ourselves into the ground, because he knows we’ll eventually grow resentful without prayer. He’d rather see us study the Bible into the wee hours of the morning, because he knows we’ll never have deep understanding and… — Beth Moore Copy Share
“Through the medium of prayer we go to our enemy, stand by his side, and plead for him to God.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
It has been said by many great Christians that prayer is our secret weapon. If we desire to be free from every enemy stronghold… — Leslie Ludy Copy Share Image
The foes from whom we pray to be delivered are our own passions, appetites, and follies; and against these there is always need that… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Prayer is our most formidable weapon, the thing which makes all else we do efficient. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
When a person’s tongue is extensively wrong, it is absurd, no less than unscriptural, to say that their heart is right. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Amidst the flood of dangerous reading, I plead for my Master's book; I call upon you not to forget the book of the soul.… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Persecution, in short, is like the goldsmith's stamp on real silver and gold - it is one of the marks of a converted man. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
We are all naturally self-righteous. It is the family disease of all the children of Adam. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Sunday morning, before we go to hear the Word of God preached...let us not rush into God’s presence careless, reckless, and unprepared, as if… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The true secret of spiritual strength is self-distrust and deep humilty. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
O Christian, look up and take comfort. Jesus has prepared a place for you, and those who follow Him shall never perish, neither shall… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Let your Christianity be so unmistakable, your eye so single, your heart so whole, your walk so straightforward, that all who see you may… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Let it be a settled principle ...that men's salvation, if saved, is wholly of God; and that man's ruin, if lost, is wholly of… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
While we are contending for our own liberty, we should be very cautious not to violate the conscience of others, ever considering that God… — George Washington Copy Share Image
History more often records the brilliant successes and spectacular defeats of contending forces than the effect of war on the common people. — Mildred Cable Copy Share Image
The historian's distortion is more than technical, it is ideological; it is released into a world of contending interest, where any chosen emphasis supports… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I've started to show the consistency in majors I had in regular tournaments back in 1998-2000 when I was contending nearly every week. — Lee Westwood Copy Share Image
Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
The truth is, most of those female stories that are contending for Oscars are directed by men. Let's be honest. I looked at the… — Catherine Hardwicke Copy Share Image
Pride takes innumerable forms but has only one end: self-glorification. That’s the motive and ultimate purpose of pride—to rob God of legitimate glory and… — C. J. Mahaney Copy Share Image
It is not, perhaps, unreasonable to conclude, that a pure and perfect democracy is a thing not attainable by man, constituted as he is of contending elements of vice and virtue, and ever mainly influenced by the predominant principle of self-interest. It may, indeed, be confidently asserted, that there never was that government called a republic, which was not ultimately… — Alexander Fraser Tytler Copy Share
The true secret of natural goodness lies in the recognition of the contending rights of the Pairs of Opposites; there is no such antimony… — Dion Fortune Copy Share Image
There is no contending with necessity, and we should be very tender how we censure those that submit to it. It is one thing… — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
Christians have an important role to play in contending that no human life is "devoid of value." We can do so through courageous protest, as happened in Germany, as well, as in compassionate care for the most vulnerable members of society, as Mother Teresa did. In both approaches theology - what one believes about God and human life - matters.… — Philip Yancey Copy Share
To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life - that… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
