“Have courage and do not fear the assaults of the Devil. Remember this forever; it is a healthy sign if the devil shouts and roars around your conscience, since this shows that he is not inside your will.”

—  Padre Pio

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Have courage and do not fear the assaults of the Devil. Remember this forever; it is a healthy sign if the devil shouts…" by Padre Pio?
Padre Pio photo
Padre Pio 10
Italian saint, priest, stigmatist and mystic 1887–1968

Related quotes

Phil Spector photo

“I have devils inside that fight me.”

Phil Spector (1939–2021) American record producer, songwriter

Phil Spector’s final interview before jail https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/interviews/phil-spectors-final-interview-jail-tortured-soul/, 17 January 2021.

Albert Schweitzer photo

“The good conscience is an invention of the devil.”

Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosopher

Variant translation: The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil.
Kulturphilosophie (1923)

Sherrilyn Kenyon photo
Karen Marie Moning photo

“Bedevil the devil and devil be dammed. I fear no devil and bow to no man.

- Adam Black”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Beyond the Highland Mist

Thomas Aquinas photo

“On the contrary, The demons are ever assailing us, according to 1 Peter 5:8: "Your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about, seeking whom he may devour." Much more therefore do the good angels ever guard us”

Summa Theologica (1265–1274)
Context: Whether the angel guardian ever forsakes a man?... It would seem that the angel guardian sometimes forsakes the man whom he is appointed to guard... On the contrary, The demons are ever assailing us, according to 1 Peter 5:8: "Your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about, seeking whom he may devour." Much more therefore do the good angels ever guard us... the guardianship of the angels is an effect of Divine providence in regard to man. Now it is evident that neither man, nor anything at all, is entirely withdrawn from the providence of God: for in as far as a thing participates being, so far is it subject to the providence that extends over all being.

I, q. 113, art. 6

“You know the Devil is your enemy but you do not deal with him as such.”

Ibrahim ibn Adham (718–776) ascetic Sufi saint

Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 28

Joseph Stalin photo

“God is on your side? Is He a Conservative? The Devil's on my side, he's a good Communist.”

Joseph Stalin (1879–1953) General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Said to Winston Churchill in Tehran, November 1943, as quoted in Fallen Eagle: The Last Days of the Third Reich (1995) by Robin Cross, p. 21
Contemporary witnesses

David Levithan photo
Sherrilyn Kenyon photo

Related topics