Return to Galilee

Return to Galilee
By Vasily Polenov

“And when the devil had ended all the temptation, he departed from Him for a season. And Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and news about him spread through the whole countryside.”
Luke 4:13-14
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“The devil used all his cunning ways to tempt the Savior to abandon His mission. To this the Savior responded: ‘Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.’ And when the devil had ended all the temptation, he departed from him for a season. And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about. Fasting had blessed Him with the power of the Spirit.” – L. Tom Perry

“Oh, Brothers and Sisters, be not merely Christians, only barely Christians, with just enough Grace to let you see your imperfections, but pray to God to give you mighty Grace, that you may ‘be strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might,’ so that, after the devil has tested you and found that the Lord is with you, that God dwells in you, then you may expect that, as it was with your Master, so it will be with you—Satan will leave you.” – Rev. Charles Spurgeon

“The price of leadership is loneliness. The price of adherence to conscience is loneliness. The price of adherence to principle is loneliness. I think it is inescapable. The Savior of the world was a Man who walked in loneliness. I do not know of any statement more underlined with the pathos of loneliness than His statement: “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.” – Gordon B. Hinckley

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