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“Demons keep away from us when we are living in the world that we may go on staying among worldly-minded people because we are not attacked there… We should realize that the place in which we were attacked is the one in which we are certainly waging bitter war on the enemy; for if we are ourselves are not waging war, the enemy is presenting himself as our friend.”

“We must carefully consider whether our conscience has ceased to accuse us, not as a result of purity, but because it is immersed and evil. A sign of deliverance… Is the continual acknowledgment of our indebtedness.”

“Just as trees swayed by the winds drive their roots deeply into the earth, so those who live in obedience get strong and unshakeable souls.”

“It is the property of angels… not to fall… it is the property of men to fall, and to rise again as often as this may happen. But it is the property of devils, and devils alone, not to rise once they have fallen.”