You cannot buy off the devil

You cannot buy off the devil. You cannot escape the conflict. There can be no compromise. The Christian life is bound to be a life of conflict. Virtue can never flourish by the consent of the powers of evil. The rock does not stand in the sea by the permission of the waves. When the storm comes the waves hurl themselves against it, but the rock stands foursquare, unmoved, unshaken, not by permission of the waves, but because it is firmly established in mother earth. You cannot escape the...