Causes Quote by Kathleen Norris

A proud monk needs no demon. He has turned into one, an enemy to himself.

— John Climacus

The Noonday Demon explores the subterranean realms of an illness which is on the point of becoming endemic, and which more than anything else…

— W. G. Sebald

He who is neither human nor demon is not the dawn nor the dusk.

— Kohta Hirano

“ridding the body of the demon does not completely sever the ties between the host and the demon. Once the demon has consumed you,…

— Hanna Peach

The enemy is a spiritual enemy. He's called the principality of darkness. The enemy is a guy called Satan.

— William G. Boykin

He walks in daylight. But, like a demon, he’s weaker then. He seems to have the powers of a god, but no followers. What…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“In the fourth century, John Cassian described a condition among his fellow monks that he called “acedia”: a “weariness or distress of heart . . .…

— Joshua Wolf Shenk

As God illumines all people equally with the light of the sun, so do those who desire to imitate God let shine an equal…

— Saint Basil

He who has mastery over his incensive power has mastery also over the demons. But anyone who is a slave to it is a…

— Evagrius Ponticus

His life oscillates, as everyone's does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but…

— Hermann Hesse

“Thus a certain Silvanus refused to look at the sun because it was a physical light. At last, however, he saw in a vision…

— Martin Luther

Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of…

— Harper Lee