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Tag: devil (6 entries)

How Does the Devil Seduce?

· 8 June 2008 | 306 words

I discovered an old interview with Father Gabriele Amorth on the internet concerning Satan and exorcism. It is an interesting article, but this particular piece near the end jumped out at me. How does the Devil go about seducing men...

A Devil Free Moment

· 9 October 2007 | 482 words

From Br. Joseph -- There is a moment in each day that Satan cannot find. (William Blake) I saw this quote the other day. My mind searched for a specific time or moment to label as "Satan free." Was it in...

Gorging on Emotions

· 1 September 2007 | 637 words

I don't remember where I read it, but this one line has been stuck in my mind for the last few weeks. It was something along the lines of "gorging on emotions." The idea of feeding upon my emotions is...

The Tail of the Snake

· 2 May 2007 | 370 words

I was in the middle of the first part of a three-step prayer yesterday evening when my whinny little four-year suddenly bursted into my room and demanded he needed a fresh pair socks at that very moment so he could...

Waiting

· 4 April 2007 | 22 words

Heard this line in the movie, As Good As It Gets: Waiting gives the devil time. Waiting also gives God time....

The Devil’s Love

· 13 February 2007 | 318 words

From James Finley's Merton's Palace of Nowhere, Finley quotes Thomas Merton: It is...a blindness to prayer that exposes us to the pitfalls of becoming ourselves like those, ...for whom a tree has no reality until they think of cutting it...