The enemy is within us. An invisible war is taking place in us. If the inside is badly beaten, while the external enemy, the weaker, will travel.
Saint John Cassian
Those who strive to live a spiritual life are experiencing the most subtle and most difficult of spiritual warfare: a battle at every moment of their life with their thoughts.
Saint John of Kronstadt
exists in us a mental war than the war against the senses.
Venerable Saint Philothea Sinai
Central to the issue of internal struggle lies in the following: down carefully in your heart. Sit down there before the Lord and let not there anything between sin. Therein lies the fullness of inner struggle.
St. Theophanes the Recluse
Version French Claude Lopez-Ginisty
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