Jessie Penn-Lewis > Quotes

“The hour of need always brings the corresponding measure of power from God to meet that need.”
― Jessie Penn-Lewis, War on the Saints: Original and Unabridged 1912 Edition [Annotated]

“Every believer must test all teachers to-day, for himself, by the Word of God, and their attitude to the atoning Cross of Christ, and other fundamental truths of the gospel, and not be misled into testing "teaching" by the character of the teacher. Good men can be deceived, and Satan needs good men to float his lies under the guise of truth.”
― Jessie Penn-Lewis, War on the Saints: Original and Unabridged 1912 Edition [Annotated]

“He is commanded to be strong, with his only equipment the Word of God and implicit obedience to it! Such was Christ’s equipment.”
― Jessie Penn-Lewis, The Conquest of Canaan: Warfare and Victory in the Christian Life

“The demoniacal powers know this and do all they can to push you to strain your mind. It can be strained by dwelling on one theme until it cannot see anything else clearly—or by worry, anxiety, or even excessive “thinking” as to what is the will of God.”
― Jessie Penn-Lewis, Spiritual Warfare

“Ignorance of God and of His heart and His written Word, lie at the bottom of much aimless prayer.”
― Jessie Penn-Lewis, Face to Face: Glimpses into the Inner Life of Moses the Man of God

“It is not a light thing to be called “a friend of God”!  It doubtless cost Abraham many tears, and hours of conflict as “against hope” he “believed in hope” that God would fulfil His word.  It cost Moses much to stand unflinchingly true to God in the face of Israel’s sufferings and Pharaoh’s parleying.”
― Jessie Penn-Lewis, Face to Face: Glimpses into the Inner Life of Moses the Man of God

“Would that we had learnt thus to be God’s ambassadors, and to be so self-effaced while delivering the message, that the souls to whom we are sent know they have to deal with God, and not with His messengers.  Alas! it is to be feared that many of us have scarcely learnt the first elements of spiritual service.”
― Jessie Penn-Lewis, Face to Face: Glimpses into the Inner Life of Moses the Man of God

“Briefly, prayer warfare simply means holding unceasingly the power of the “finished work of Christ” over the hosts of evil, in their attack upon some place or person, until the victory is won. Just as Moses lifted his hands stedfastly until the victory was won, so the prayer warrior holds up stedfastly the victory of the cross—the finished victory of Christ over Satan—until the forces of evil retreat and are vanquished.”
― Jessie Penn-Lewis, Spiritual Warfare