Quotes of the Day for April 6, 2026 – Thoughts on spiritual warfare
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“Spiritual warfare is what we fight against daily; but let us remember that in fighting the darkness and the adverse powers, we must not open the portals in our armor to become agents of the darkness itself. How is this possible? This is possible when we foment hatred and anger in our hearts. When we judge our brothers and sisters because we see them as the enemy, as someone to overcome and defeat. Christ already defeated death with death. The thief comes but to steal, and to kill, and to destroy, I come that they may have life and have it more abundantly (John 10:10). We are not here to be agents of death, darkness, destruction, nor division. We are here to shine the Light of Christ that was given to us at our baptism.” (Jackie Morfesis)
“In order to wage spiritual warfare, we need the presence of Divine grace, for this is no human warfare…We receive forgiveness from each other that through forgiveness and repentance the Holy Spirit of God might enter our hearts, abide with us, open our eyes and lead us to an awareness of our sinfulness, so we might turn to God and entreat absolution for our sins. If all this warfare doesn’t lead us to seek forgiveness of sins, if it doesn’t lead us to a blessed state of repentance, then this warfare won’t bear any fruit. Only repentance nurtures and purifies the human soul.” (Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol)
“Those who desire not to commit any offensive sins and who struggle with themselves by any means available to them—fasting, prayer, the fulfillment of Church regulations, repentance—eventually come to the realization that their powers are nothing, they’re insufficient, ineffective, and that salvation is possible only if Christ Himself commits it by His love and goodness and the grace of God removes the passions and delivers the sufferer from his destructive power. Nothing can be done and nothing achieved without the Lord! In life, spiritual victory is obtained by enduring sorrows and trials, but with one condition: to bear it all with thanksgiving, without murmuring.” (St. Seraphim Chichagov)
“Our Lord Jesus Christ came into the world in order to break and uproot people’s faithless belief in evil, and sow in their souls faith in goodness, in the omnipotence of goodness, in the invincibility and infinity of goodness. Christ did not destroy the ancient and ubiquitous belief in spirits, but confirmed it. He only revealed the spiritual world as it is, and not as people, at the devil’s slander, imagined it to be. The one good, all-wise, and omnipotent God is master over the spiritual and physical, visible and invisible worlds. The good spirits are the angels, and we can hardly count their multitudes. The good spirits, or angels, are incomparably more powerful and the evil spirits. Evil spirits do not in fact have the power to do anything that the Most High God does not allow them to do.” (St. Nikolai Velimirovic)
“Demons cannot harm the Lord, but they can harm us, who are beloved of the Lord. Spiritual warfare therefore consists of Christ counterattacking His enemies in response to their assault upon us. His victory is sure and He has already won. When we live in accordance with His commandments, we turn away from the works of darkness and communion with demons and toward the works of light and communion with the loving God who made us all.” (Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick)
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