Gabriele Amorth > Quotes

“Men are free to choose whether they wish to live for God or against Him and therefore to opt for heaven or for hell. We must recognize that God has made everything to make man happy, and in accordance with this plan, God asks man to obey the laws that He has established; but God has also given man the ability to refuse this truth. This is the situation in which all of us are placed.”
― Fr. Gabriele Amorth

“The greatest challenge is normalizing the abnormal and making the extraordinary ordinary.”
― Fr Gabriele Amorth, An Exorcist Explains the Demonic: The Antics of Satan and His Army of Fallen Angels

“The most frequent weak points in man are, from time to time, always the same: pride, money, and lust.”
― Fr Gabriele Amorth, An Exorcist Explains the Demonic: The Antics of Satan and His Army of Fallen Angels

“each of us becomes what we see, what we listen to, and what we read.”
― Fr Gabriele Amorth, An Exorcist Explains the Demonic: The Antics of Satan and His Army of Fallen Angels

“Human greatness has always had sadness for a companion.”
― Fr Gabriele Amorth, An Exorcist Explains the Demonic: The Antics of Satan and His Army of Fallen Angels

“Christ’s centrality in the plan of creation, and its restoration through redemption, is fundamental to understanding God’s plan and the end of the world. Angels and men received an intelligent and free nature. When I am told (by those who confuse predestination with God’s providence) that God already knows who will be saved and who will be damned, and therefore anything we do is useless, I usually answer with four truths that the Bible spells out for us: God wants that everyone be saved; no one is predestined to go to hell; Jesus died for everyone; and everyone is given sufficient graces for salvation.”
― Gabriele Amorth, An Exorcist Tells His Story

“which is diabolical obsession. It consists of uncontrollable evil thoughts that torment an individual, especially at night, or sometimes always. In all cases the cure is the same: prayer, fasting, the sacraments, a Christian life, charity, and exorcisms. To identify a possible evil source we use some general, not foolproof, guidelines, because the “negativity”, that is, the demons, tend to attack man in five areas. These attacks are more or less severe, according to their origin. The five areas are the following: health, business, affections, enjoyment of life, and desire for death.”
― Gabriele Amorth, An Exorcist Tells His Story

“El empeño principal del diablo es hacer que el hombre piense sólo en las cosas de la tierra.”
― Gabriele Amorth, Más fuertes que el mal: El demonio: reconocerlo, vencerlo y evitarlo (Testigos nº 46)

“— it is necessary to educate them from an early age to cultivate a life of faith through prayer, through the Mass, and through association with the various Catholic youth clubs and other similar organizations. It is absolutely necessary to give them a sense of God and the awareness of the existence of sin and the Devil, the tempter who wishes to lead us to a separation from God and therefore to death. These young people, then, when they become older, will probably have developed the right attitudes toward these sects and satanic practices. I am aware that it involves a difficult form of education, but let us always remember that, because of the total absence of beautiful and good ideals, young people today are more exposed to these dangers. When faith disappears, one abandons himself to superstition and occultism.”
― Fr Gabriele Amorth, An Exorcist Explains the Demonic: The Antics of Satan and His Army of Fallen Angels

“The second is the release from the principle of authority, that is, from any obligation to obey parents, the Church, the state, and whoever places restrictions in the name of the common good. The”
― Fr Gabriele Amorth, An Exorcist Explains the Demonic: The Antics of Satan and His Army of Fallen Angels

“If each man — apart from his religion, his culture, his epoch, and any other circumstance — has loved his neighbor, he has also loved the Lord Jesus in person. Any rapport with our brothers and sisters in any locality, any age, or any situation is, all in all, a rapport with Jesus Christ in person. Each human creature who achieves fulfillment in his human relationships is, at the same time, relating to God. For this reason, the love of neighbor is the fundamental precept of life.”
― Fr Gabriele Amorth, An Exorcist Explains the Demonic: The Antics of Satan and His Army of Fallen Angels

“Therefore, it is necessary to guard our heart and our external senses from indecent spectacles: each of us becomes what we see, what we listen to, and what we read.”
― Fr Gabriele Amorth, An Exorcist Explains the Demonic: The Antics of Satan and His Army of Fallen Angels

“Psychophonia is the name given by Spiritism (founder Allan Kardec, author of The Medium’s Book) and some other spiritualist traditions to the speaking of spirits through a medium.”
― Fr. Gabriel Amorth, The Devil is Afraid of Me: The Life and Work of the World's Most Popular Exorcist

“The devil is nothing against the mercy of God.”
― Gabriele Amorth, The Devil is Afraid of Me: The Life and Work of the World's Most Popular Exorcist

“Thus we see everyone—young and old, women, laborers, professionals, politicians, and actors—seeking the “truth” about their future. This sort of crowd will always find another crowd: sorcerers, soothsayers, astrologers, card readers, prana therapists, and fortune-tellers of all kinds. Those who turn to them are motivated by chance, or hope, or desperation, or as an experiment.”
― Gabriele Amorth, An Exorcist Tells His Story

“The devil, through his ordinary action, which is temptation, and through his extraordinary action, which is the subject of this book, tries to destroy the confidence of each man and each woman to love and to be loved.”
― Fr Gabriele Amorth, An Exorcist Explains the Demonic: The Antics of Satan and His Army of Fallen Angels

“es sabido que el camino de santidad de muchos de ellos comenzó precisamente por la decisión de apartarse de una vida de lujuria y de vicios.”
― Gabriele Amorth, Más fuertes que el mal: El demonio: reconocerlo, vencerlo y evitarlo (Testigos nº 46)

“Jesus first gave the power to cast out demons to his apostles; then he extended the power to the seventy-two disciples, and in the end he granted it to all those who would believe in him.”
― Gabriele Amorth, An Exorcist Tells His Story

“After I read this book, I have not prayed the Rosary in the same way. It is my hope that this book, brief but compact, will be a light to you, as well.”
― Gabriele Amorth, “My Rosary”: The Beloved Prayer of an Exorcist

“Todo lo que Dios creó tiene un diseño unitario, por lo que cada parte influye sobre el conjunto y cada sombra tiene una repercusión de oscuridad sobre todo el resto.”
― Gabriele Amorth, An Exorcist Tells His Story

“Pero la vida es una lucha continua con el mal y para combatir hay que conocer. Para vencer a un enemigo cuya arma principal es el engaño, el conocimiento pleno es la mitad de la salvación... Y el amor que se obtiene con la oración... el triunfo.”
― Gabriele Amorth, Más fuertes que el mal: El demonio: reconocerlo, vencerlo y evitarlo (Testigos nº 46)

“The desire that we feel toward God is our way of expressing our need for a relationship with the One who consoles us, curing us and revealing to us the sense of our existence.”
― Gabriele Amorth, An Exorcist Explains the Demonic: The Antics of Satan and His Army of Fallen Angels

“One day Father Candido was expelling a demon. Toward the end of the exorcism, he turned to the evil spirit and sarcastically told him, “Get out of here. The Lord has already prepared a nice, well-heated house for you!” At this, the demon answered, “You do not know anything! It wasn’t he [God] who made hell. It was us. He had not even thought about it.” Similarly, on another occasion, while I was questioning a demon to know whether he had contributed to the creation of hell, I received this answer: “All of us cooperated.”
― Gabriele Amorth, An Exorcist Tells His Story

“In the life of the believer there is pain, because it is the way of the Cross that saves us, but there is no”
― Gabriele Amorth, An Exorcist Tells His Story

“They receive their clients in a study purposely decked out with small statues of our Lady, the saints, candles, incense, soft light, and everything that serves to create a magical, esoterical atmosphere, so useful in subjugating the naive adventurers. ... They are swindlers who make money at the expense of poor simpletons who entrust themselves to them to resolve their problems.”
― Fr. Gabriele Amorth

“Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle, be our protector against the wickedness and snares of the devil; may God rebuke him, we humbly pray; and do thou, O Prince of the heavenly host, by the power of God, thrust into hell Satan and all the evil spirits who wander through the world for the ruin of souls. Amen.”
― Gabriele Amorth, An Exorcist Tells His Story

“Padre Pio’s stay at Saint Anne was anything but peaceable. Although the friars greatly appreciated the presence of a priest so dedicated to prayer and as cheerful and pleasant as could be at recreation time, disturbing things were happening. Often, especially in the evening, there were noises and explosions that left those poor friars terrified. Padre Pio apologized to the superior and explained: the devil was testing him with every sort of trial, but he fought back and always won. Yet he would be covered with sweat and so exhausted that the other friars would have to help him change clothes.”
― Gabriele Amorth, Padre Pio: Stories and Memories of My Mentor and Friend

“What type of influence do books and especially horror films have on a spiritual life? A negative one.”
― Fr Gabriele Amorth, An Exorcist Explains the Demonic: The Antics of Satan and His Army of Fallen Angels

“He thought about death. He preferred to live. He wished to live. But he was completely resigned to the will of God.”
― Gabriele Amorth, Father Amorth : My Battle Against Satan

“El dato es evidente, la tentación de una utópica vida cómoda y tranquila nos hace tener miedo de Cristo, que nos quiere tener en su camino de aceptación de la cruz; pero no existe vida sin dolor, sin sufrimiento, sin soledad, sin muerte. En una palabra, no existe vida sin cruz.”
― Gabriele Amorth, Más fuertes que el mal: El demonio: reconocerlo, vencerlo y evitarlo (Testigos nº 46)