Unless the grace of God comes to the help of our frailty, to protect and defend it, no man can withstand the insidious onslaughts of the enemy nor can he damp down or hold in check the fevers which burn in our flesh with nature’s fire.
— John Cassian
It is not an external enemy we dread. Our foe is shut up within ourselves. An internal warfare is daily waged by us.”
― Making Life a Prayer: Selected Writings
“I saw the snares that the enemy spreads out over the world and I said groaning, “What can get through from such snares?” Then I heard a voice saying to me, ‘Humility.'”
-St Anthony the Great
