The Fight Quotes

“God's answer to your guilty conscience is the death of his Son. Your answer to a guilty conscience is usually something you do, like confessing harder, praying more, reading your Bible, paying more than your tithe in the offering and so on. These actions are what the writer to the Hebrews calls "dead works," the very things your conscience needs to be cleansed from and the very things that eventually get you wrapped up in the black shadow of your own guilt.”
― John White, The Fight: A Practical Handbook to Christian Living

“Never face temptation. Flee from it. And in fleeing, turn your back on it.”
― John White, The Fight: A Practical Handbook to Christian Living

“Well may the Accuser roar
Of ills that I have done:
I know them all, and thousands more:
Jehovah knoweth none!”
― John White, The Fight: A Practical Handbook to Christian Living

“The Father does not welcome you because you have been trying hard, because you have made a thoroughgoing confession or because you have been making spiritual strides recently. He does not welcome you because you have something you can be proud about. He welcomes you because his Son died for you.”
― John White, The Fight: A Practical Handbook to Christian Living

“I have no words that do justice to the love that led to the death of God's Son. The universe ought to have stopped in its tracks, and I am sorry it didn't. No more heinous crime was ever committed against God nor a greater act of love consummated on behalf of the criminal. Are you blasphemous enough to suppose that your dead works, your feeble efforts can add to the finished work of a dying Savior? "It is finished!" he cried.
Completed. Done. Forever ended. He crashed through the gates of hell, set prisoners free, abolished death and burst in new life from the tomb. All to set you free from sin and open the way for you to run into the loving arms of God.”
― John White, The Fight: A Practical Handbook to Christian Living

“I need say no more for now. Many, many helpful books have been written on this whole subject. I only wish to let a wild, warm enthusiasm flow from my heart down my arm to flood from my pen on to the paper. Bible study has torn apart my life and remade it. That is to say that God, through his Word, has done so. In the darkest periods of my life when everything seemed hopeless, I would struggle in the grey dawns of many faraway countries to grasp the basic truths of Scripture passages. I looked for no immediate answers to my problems. Only did I sense intuitively that I was drinking drafts from a fountain that gave life to my soul.

Slowly as I grappled with textual and theological problems, a strength grew deep within me. Foundations cemented themselves to an other-worldly rock beyond the reach of time and space, and I became strong and more alive. If I could write poetry about it I would. If I could sing through paper, I would flood your soul with the glorious melodies that express what I have found. I cannot exaggerate for there are no expressions majestic enough to tell of the glory I have seen or of the wonder of finding that I, a neurotic, unstable, middle-aged man have my feet firmly planted in eternity and breathe the air of heaven. And all this has come to me through a careful study of Scripture.”
― John White, The Fight: A Practical Handbook to Christian Living

“It matters not how much you've got but what you do with it. Use your mediocre gifts for God. Give him your life and with it your brain and your gifts, such as they are. Give him your energy, your time and your strength.”
― John White, The Fight: A Practical Handbook to Christian Living

“Now the only place in Scripture where the devil is actually named "the accuser" is in Revelation 12:10. In the very next sentence, we read that the brethren "conquered him by the blood of the Lamb.”
― John White, The Fight: A Practical Handbook to Christian Living

“A sundial only works when there is light. It does not work at midnight in a fog. Moreover it requires light from the proper source. The moon makes it point to the wrong time. Take a flashlight with you and walk around a sundial at 3 a.m. It will tell you whatever time you want. Conscience, likewise, functions only when it has the light of God's Word illuminated by God's Spirit shining on it.”
― John White, The Fight: A Practical Handbook to Christian Living

“Nowhere in Scripture are we justified by praying,
"Lord it's true I sinned, but you see the devil tempted me.”
― John White, The Fight: A Practical Handbook to Christian Living