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The methods used by the devil are:
a) the slander, as he did with the first-created ones, when he told them that God forbade them to eat the forbidden fruit, because that way they would become gods
b) his transformation, as it happens in dreams and in visions, to deceive man
c) scare with his appearance and noise, to terrify man
d) he presents sins as very minor to man and when man commits them, then he enlarges them to bring him to despair (hence he is called the ant-lion (mirmingoléon))
e) the method of exchange, i.e. what do you give me, human, in exchange for what I give you, as is the case e.g. with the mediums, where the request is granted, but the soul of the one who visits them is bound
f) the method of exaggeration by the thoughts of the right, so that man would wage a reckless spiritual battle and
g) he fights everyone in his weak point, in his "Achilles heel", which for everyone is different. (Athanasios Mytilineos)
The central interest of the devil is that we have no joy. So that we are gloomy, miserable, desperate. (Barnabas Yagou)
The devil doesn't fight you from the start. He lets you enter the church, advance, and then he starts his war. He's in no hurry. He is cunning. First, he makes you feel discouraged. He moves like the Turks in the disaster of Asia Minor. The Turks let the Greeks go as far as Eskişehir - Afyonkarahisar and then decimated them. The obedience of the Greek soldiers to their officers destroyed them. Kemal Ataturk said: "What a waste that such a Greek army should be lost!" If they had stayed as far as Smyrna, they would have suffered nothing. However, those who spread very quickly will have to accumulate. He who goes for the much, loses the little. It takes caution and strategy to overcome the enemy. (Arsenios Kotsopoulos)
If it were possible to see the fury and mania with which the devil attacks us, the wildest and most carnivorous beasts would seem to us quiet and calm lambs! Such a terrible enemy he is! (Charalambos Vassilopoulos)
The sight of the demons is so ugly and terrible that if you saw one now and there was a deep cliff or a burning furnace nearby, you would rather fall into the cliff or into the furnace to burn than to see the demon. The evil spirits became so ugly after their fall, for just as before the fall they were the most beautiful creatures of the Creator, so also after their fall they became the ugliest. (Agapios Landos of Crete)
- Nothing infuriates the devil more than the practical humility exercised with all the strength of the soul.
- The devil always works harder when people go on vacation, on leave or on strike! When man relaxes, his thoughts are different and he cannot come to repentance, because repentance requires vigilance and not relaxation.
- There is not much devil in our time. There are many devilish disciples in our time. (said an elder)
a) the slander, as he did with the first-created ones, when he told them that God forbade them to eat the forbidden fruit, because that way they would become gods
b) his transformation, as it happens in dreams and in visions, to deceive man
c) scare with his appearance and noise, to terrify man
d) he presents sins as very minor to man and when man commits them, then he enlarges them to bring him to despair (hence he is called the ant-lion (mirmingoléon))
e) the method of exchange, i.e. what do you give me, human, in exchange for what I give you, as is the case e.g. with the mediums, where the request is granted, but the soul of the one who visits them is bound
f) the method of exaggeration by the thoughts of the right, so that man would wage a reckless spiritual battle and
g) he fights everyone in his weak point, in his "Achilles heel", which for everyone is different. (Athanasios Mytilineos)
The central interest of the devil is that we have no joy. So that we are gloomy, miserable, desperate. (Barnabas Yagou)
The devil doesn't fight you from the start. He lets you enter the church, advance, and then he starts his war. He's in no hurry. He is cunning. First, he makes you feel discouraged. He moves like the Turks in the disaster of Asia Minor. The Turks let the Greeks go as far as Eskişehir - Afyonkarahisar and then decimated them. The obedience of the Greek soldiers to their officers destroyed them. Kemal Ataturk said: "What a waste that such a Greek army should be lost!" If they had stayed as far as Smyrna, they would have suffered nothing. However, those who spread very quickly will have to accumulate. He who goes for the much, loses the little. It takes caution and strategy to overcome the enemy. (Arsenios Kotsopoulos)
If it were possible to see the fury and mania with which the devil attacks us, the wildest and most carnivorous beasts would seem to us quiet and calm lambs! Such a terrible enemy he is! (Charalambos Vassilopoulos)
The sight of the demons is so ugly and terrible that if you saw one now and there was a deep cliff or a burning furnace nearby, you would rather fall into the cliff or into the furnace to burn than to see the demon. The evil spirits became so ugly after their fall, for just as before the fall they were the most beautiful creatures of the Creator, so also after their fall they became the ugliest. (Agapios Landos of Crete)
- Nothing infuriates the devil more than the practical humility exercised with all the strength of the soul.
- The devil always works harder when people go on vacation, on leave or on strike! When man relaxes, his thoughts are different and he cannot come to repentance, because repentance requires vigilance and not relaxation.
- There is not much devil in our time. There are many devilish disciples in our time. (said an elder)
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