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| The Saints on Demons | |||||||
| "The fiend selects for his most furious attacks the time when we feel most unable to pray." - Nilus Sorsky | |||||||
| "To free a man who is bodily a captive in the hands of barbarians is a noble deed, but to free a soul from the slavery of Satan is greater than to deliver all who are in corporal slavery." - Jean Eudes | |||||||
| "Demons are very cowardly, always anxious about the fire that has been prepared for them. To bolster your courage against them, take this sure sign. When some apparition occurs, do not collapse in terror, but whatever it may be ask first, bravely, "Who are you, and where do you come from?" If it is a divine vision, they will give you assurances and change your fear to joy. If it is some devil, it will immediately be weakened by your formidable spirit." - Anthony of Egypt | |||||||
| "The demons were not created as the figures we now identify as 'demonic,' for God made nothing bad. They were made good, but falling from the heavenly wisdom and thereafter wandering around the earth, they deceived the Greeks through apparitions. Envious of us Christians, they meddle with all things in their desire to frustrate our journey into heaven so that we might not ascend to the placefrom which they fell." - Anthony of Egypt | |||||||
| "Consider that the devil does not sleep, but seeks our ruin in a thousand ways." - Angela Merici | |||||||
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