"The devil has no difficulty in making sin look innocent." - Anonymous

"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." - Thomas Brooks

"Satan is an acute theologian." - John Calvin

"Satanic anarchy is conscious and determined opposition to God. Wherever God's rule is made known, Satan will put himself alongside and oppose it. Satan's sin is at the summit of all sins, man's sin is at the foundation of all sins, and there is all the difference in the world between them." - Oswald Chambers

"Satan is not fighting churches; he is joining them. He does more harm by sowing tares than by pulling up wheat. He accomplishes more by imitation than by outright opposition." - Vance Havner

"When Satan fell he may have lost his innocence but he did not lose his intelligence." -Trevor Knight

"The Holy Ghost is the only One who can detect the temptations of Satan, neither our common sense nor our human wisdom can detect them as temptations." - Oswald Chambers

"Nothing promotes the activity of the devil more than the Christian's proximity to God." -John Blanchard

"To deny the fact of Satan is to deny the truth of Scripture." - John Blanchard

"The devil is old, but not infirm." - Anonymous

"If God were not my friend, Satan would not be so much my enemy." - Thomas Brooks

"Satan, as in his first temptation, is still on the losing side." - William Gurnall

"Satan does far more harm as an angel of light than as a roaring lion." - Vance Havner

"Satan has no constructive purpose of his own: his tactics are simply to thwart God and destroy men." -J. I. Packer

"The devil has more knowledge than any of us, and yet is no better for it." - J. C. Ryle

"The devil deserves his name." - Henry Smith

"The devil could care less about how many sermons you listen to, as long as you have no intention of applying them to your life." - Michael Catt

"Satan hates God for His own sake, and everything that is dear to God he hates for the very reason that God loves it". - A. W. Tozer

"The enemy will not see you vanish into God's company without an effort to reclaim you." - C. S. Lewis

"I believe Satan exists for two reasons: first, the Bible says so, and second, I've done business with him." - D. L. Moody

"Satan, when tempting someone, says that sin isn't very bad, isn't very big and isn't very important. But after the person has yielded to temptation and sinned, and has begun to think about asking God's forgiveness, then Satan reverses his field. And to his victim Satan declares that sin is so big, so bad and so awful that asking forgiveness will hardly suffice." - John R. W. Stott

"We must be careful not to advertise the devil by talking too much about him and his devices." - Corrie Ten Boom

In his book about Satan, J. Oswald Sanders, gives a great summary on the counterfeit activities of Satan.

• "He has his own trinity - the devil, the beast, and the false prophet" - Rev. 16: 13
• "He has his own church - 'a synagogue of Satan'" - Rev. 2:9
• "He has his own ministers - 'ministers of Satan'" - 2 Cor. 11:4,5
• "He has his own theology - 'doctrines of demons'" - 1 Tim. 4:l
• "He has his own sacrificial system - 'The Gentiles...sacrifice to demons'" - 1 Cor. 10:20
• "He has his own communion service - 'the cup of demons... and the table of demons'" - 1 Cor.10:21
• "He has his own gospel - 'a gospel contrary to that which we have preached to you'" - Gal. 1:7,8

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