The devil seeks our ruin…
Remember that the Devil doesn’t sleep, but seeks our ruin in a thousand ways.
–Saint Angela Merici (1474-1540)
Bad habits…
Just as iron, even without willing it, is drawn by a magnet, so is a slave to bad habits dragged about by them.
–Saint John Climacus (c. 525-606)
When tempted…
When you are tempted, summon to your assistance the hope and thought that consolation will shortly follow, especially if by holy struggles you gradually overcome the struggles of despair.
— Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)
The time to be silent…
When you feel the assaults of passion and anger, then is the time to be silent as Jesus was silent in the midst of His ignominies and sufferings.
–Saint Paul of the Cross Saint (1694-1775)
To make progress…
A soul that desires to make progress in the spiritual life must go in the opposite direction from the devil’s leading.
–Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)
When the devil…
When the devil meets with a too delicate conscience, he tries to make it much more delicate, and to reduce it to extreme distress, so that it may be so wretchedly disturbed as at last to fall out of the race for spiritual improvement.
–Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)
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