Spiritual Combat Quotes

“God, when we had no being, created us out of nothing; and now that through Him we have a being, He wills that the whole spiritual fabric should be based on this foundation, namely, the knowledge of our own nothingness. And the deeper this knowledge becomes, the higher will the building rise. And according as we dig out the earth of our own wretchedness, so much the more will the Divine Architect bring the most solid stones to advance the building.”
― Lorenzo Scupoli, The Spiritual Combat by Dom Lorenzo Scupoli

“For I believe the spiritual combat to be more desperate in the center of chaos, which is Detroit.”
― Theodore Roethke, Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke