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The evil spirit often disguises himself as an angel of light, and now and then tricks us by his illusions.
All of us must be ever alert for these tricks and should pay particular attention to learning how to recognize and overcome them.
—St. Vincent de Paul
You need great discrimination in order to distinguish between good and evil. So do not readily or lightly put your trust in appearances, but weigh things well, and after testing everything carefully cleave to what is good and reject what is evil. You must test and discriminate before you give credence to anything.
—St. Gregory of Sinai
However great may be the temptation, if we know how to use the weapon of prayer well we shall come off conquerors at last, for prayer is more powerful than all the devils. He who is attacked by the spirits of darkness needs only to apply himself vigorously to prayer, and he will…
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