“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.”

“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.”

“1. We fear people because they can expose and humiliate us. 2. We fear people because they can reject, ridicule, or despise us. 3. We fear people because they can attack, oppress, or threaten us. These three reasons have one thing in common: they see people as “bigger” (that is, more powerful and significant) than God, and, out of the fear that creates in us, we give other people the power and right to tell us what to feel, think, and do.”

“To be evil at all, Satan needs good things he can abuse, things like intelligence, power and will. Those good things come from God.”

“Consequently, if you believe God made Satan, you must realize that all Satan's power comes from God and so that Satan is simply God's child, and that we are God's children also. There are no children of Satan, really.”

“Satan fools and feigns, blows and bluffs, and we so often take his threats to heart and forget the "exceeding greatness of God's power to us.”