Books Quote by Vincent de Paul

. . . It is God's plan that those who are to help others spiritually fall into the temptations of mind and body by…

— Vincent de Paul

Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on…

— Saint Peter

When you are subjected to the malicious and furious violence of the passions, and to the harassments of the Devil, during the fulfillment of…

— John of Kronstadt

Ordinarily, God allows these things [i.e. evil suggestions and wickedness] to happen to free us from some hidden pride and to engender in us…

— Vincent de Paul

“There is either a warning or an encouragement here for every one of us. If you are a nice person—if virtue comes easily to…

— C.S. Lewis

God scorns and mocks the devil, in setting under his very nose a poor, weak, human creature, mere dust and ashes, yet endowed with…

— Martin Luther

“If you yield yourself up to His divine working, the Lord will alter your nature; He will subdue the old nature, and breathe new…

— Charles H. Spurgeon

The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for…

— Martin Luther

“Let him consider how all want of love, all indifference to the needs, the feelings, the weakness of others; all sharp and hasty judgments…

— Andrew Murray

“...deeds are done which appear so evil to us and people suffer such terrible evils that it does not seem as though any good…

— Julian of Norwich

“All thoughts, feelings, every disposition of the heart tending to destroy love and create enmity, proceed from the Devil.”

— St. John of Kronstadt

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have…

— George Santayana