Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Struggle (with Sin)
Just as people do not enter war in order to enjoy war, but in order to be saved from war, so we do not enter this world in order to enjoy this world, but in order to be saved from it. People go to wars for something greater than war. So we also enter this temporal life for the sake of something greater: for eternal life. And as soldiers think with joy about returning home, so also Christians constantly remember the end of their lives and their return to their heavenly fatherland..
–Saint Theophan the Recluse (1815-1894)
Page: Quotes, Pio (1887-1968), Quote Author, Quote Topic, Struggle (with Sin), Suffering
Your temptations are from the devil and from Hell; but your sufferings and afflictions are from God and Heaven.
–Saint Pio (1887-1968)
Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life), Struggle (with Sin), Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.
–Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
John Vianney (1786-1859), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life), Struggle (with Sin)
And even more, since the time of Adam, you will not find a saint who has not been tempted — some in one way, some in another — and the greatest saints are those who have been tempted the most. If Our Lord was tempted, it was in order to show us that we must be also. It follows, therefore, that we must expect temptation.
–Saint John Vianney (1786-1859)
Isaac of Syria (Seventh Century), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life), Struggle (with Sin)
There is no man who will not be grieved at the time of his chastisement; and there is not man who will not endure a bitter time, when he must drink the poison of temptations. Without them, it is not possible to obtain a strong will. When he has often experienced the help of God in temptations, a man also obtains strong faith.
–Saint Isaac of Syria (Seventh Century)
Augustine (354-430), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Struggle (with Sin)
Idolatry is worshipping anything that ought to be used, or using anything that is meant to be worshipped.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
