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  • In the battle of faith, money is usually the last stronghold to fall.

    Christian   Fall   Battle  
  • What a shame that Christianity had come here!If the white man had not intruded where he was not wanted, where he did not belong, even now protected by the mountains and the river,the village would have remained a last stronghold of a culture which was almost gone.Mark tried to say that no village,no culture can remain static. I have often thought that if this lively and magnificent land belongs to anyone,it's to the birds and the fish.They were here long before the first Indian and when the last man is gone from the Earth,it will be theirs again.

    Men   Land   Rivers  
    Margaret Craven (1973). “I Heard the Owl Call My Name”
  • Sean Óg ó Hailpín.... his father's from Fermanagh, his mother's from Fiji, neither a hurling stronghold.

    Mother   Father   Fiji  
  • The stronghold of the contemplation of Christ's glory affords the soul rest, for it will be made evident that our troubles grow on the root of an over-valuation of temporal things. The mind is its own greatest troubler.

    Roots   Soul   Mind  
  • A head full of biblical knowledge without a heart passionately in love with Christ is terribly dangerous - a stronghold waiting to happen. The head is full, but the heart and soul are still unsatisfied.

    Beth Moore (2002). “When Godly People Do Ungodly Things: Finding Authentic Restoration in the Age of Seduction”, p.60, B&H Publishing Group
  • Religion, the dominion of the human mind; Property, the dominion of human needs; and Government, the dominion of human conduct, represent the stronghold of man's enslavement and all the horrors it entails.

    Men   Mind   Needs  
    Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.36, Sheba Blake Publishing
  • Do not look at your weakness or your small size; look at the Lord and His greatness that He will demonstrate through you. You now have the authority to tear down the strongholds of the enemy and to make New Zealand a fortress of righteousness.

    Greatness   Enemy   Tears  
  • The ivory tower of the artist may be the only stronghold left for human values, cultural treasures, man’s cult of beauty.

  • You never hear in the news, "200 killed today when Atheist rebels took heavy shelling from the Agnostic stronghold in the north."

    Atheist   Two   Rebel  
    "Doug Stanhope: Word of Mouth". Comedy, 2002.
  • Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect!

    Sweet   Cooking   Devil  
    Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.99
  • All autonomous agencies and authorities, sooner or later, turn into self-perpetuating strongholds of conventional thought and practice.

    Practice   Agency   Self  
  • The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation.

    Home   Lasts   Isolation  
  • We see nation-states collapsing all around us: Libya, Syria, Iraq. We do not want another failed state in our neighborhood, which would rapidly turn into a stronghold for terrorists, as we have seen in Gaza. We do not want tunnels to suburbs of Tel Aviv or missiles pointed at Jerusalem.

    Iraq   Tunnels   Want  
    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • A home is a kingdom of it's own in the midst of the world, a stronghold amid life's storms and stresses, a refuge, even a sanctuary.

    Stress   Home   Storm  
    Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.26, Simon and Schuster
  • The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago.

    Rain   Years   Historical  
  • It is a natural stronghold for them—they can infest this maze of iron and water like a horde of starving cockroaches, and they’ll be just as hard to anticipate and to kill in such close quarters.” “Wow,” Shane said. “You really know how to drum up team spirit. Did you print up Team Total Fail jerseys, too?” Myrnin gave him an entirely crazy smile. “Would you be surprised if I had?

    Crazy   Team   Iron  
    Rachel Caine (2012). “Black Dawn”, p.64, Allison & Busby
  • Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee.

  • How can you pull down strongholds of Satan if you don't even have the strength to turn off your TV?

  • The true man of God is heartsick, grieved at the worldliness of the Church, grieved at the toleration of sin in the Church, grieved at the prayerlessness in the Church. He is disturbed that the corporate prayer of the Church no longer pulls down the strongholds of the devil.

    Prayer   Men   Religion  
  • As far as the earth is from the stars, and fire from the sea, so is the useful from the right. Power over men perishes completely if justice begins to be observed, and respect for individual rights overcomes strongholds.

    Wisdom   Stars   Men  
  • When I was about five, I gave my heart to Jesus Christ, and since then it's just been a stronghold in my life. Really, through the shark attack and all the hard times that my family and I went through, it gave us unity and perseverance to push through all this crazy stuff that we never knew was going to happen.

    "Bethany Hamilton; AnnaSophia Robb". "Tavis Smiley", www.pbs.org. March 31, 2011.
  • Persistent calling upon the name of the Lord breaks through every stronghold of the devil, for nothing is impossible with God. For Christians in these troubled times there is simply no other way.

    Jim Cymbala (2010). “Fresh Wind Fresh Fire: What Happens When God's Spirit Invades the Hearts of His People”, p.70, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • 872, Ivar, King of the Northmen of all Ireland and Britain , ended his life." He had conquered Mercia and East Anglia. He had captured the major stronghold of the kingdom of Strathclyde, Dumbarton. Laden with loot and seemingly invincible, he settled in Dublin and died there peacefully two years later. The pious chroniclers report that he "slept in Christ." Thus it may be that he had the best of both worlds.

    Kings   Years   Two  
    Winston Churchill (2004). “A History of the English Speaking Peoples 01. The Birth of Britain.”
  • We must show new energy in fighting back an old evil. Nearly two centuries after the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, and more than a century after slavery was officially ended in its last strongholds, the trade in human beings for any purpose must not be allowed to thrive in our time.

    Fighting   Two   Evil  
    Third Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 23 September 2003, New York, NY
  • But have we Holy Ghost power — power that restricts the devil's power, pulls down strongholds, and obtains promises? Daring delinquents will be damned if they are not delivered from the devil's dominion. What has hell to fear other than a God-anointed, prayer-powered church?

    Prayer   Promise   Church  
    "Why Revival Tarries".
  • This country to-day [is] the last stronghold of freedom, standing like a rock in a tide that is threatened to submerge the world.

    Country   Rocks   World  
  • Of all powers, love is the most powerful and the most powerless. It is the most powerful because it alone can conquer that final and most impregnable stronghold which is the human heart. It is the most powerless because it can do nothing except by consent.

  • Europe becomes more and more a province of Islam, a colony of Islam. And Italy is an outpost of that province, a stronghold of that colony... In each of our cities lies a second city: a Muslim city, a city run by the Quran. A stage in the Islamic expansionism.

    Running   Lying   Islamic  
    "La forza della ragione (The Force of Reason)". Book by Oriana Fallaci (p. 34), 2004.
  • It has been said by many great Christians that prayer is our secret weapon. If we desire to be free from every enemy stronghold over our lives and fully fortified to live the superhuman existences God intended us to live, then we must learn how to pray.

  • When things are not going right, there are satanic forces in operation. What is my solution? To rebuke the condition of sin, death, disease, or whatever it is. I can pray in the Holy Ghost, and that prayer is effectual to bring down every stronghold of the enemy.

    Prayer   Enemy   Satanic  
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