"If you knew particularly what to do, it were not a spiritual exercise."
- Samuel Rutherford
"The second cause whence these rebellions sometimes proceed is the devil, who, in order to disquiet and disturb the soul, at times when it is at prayer or is striving to pray, contrives to stir up thes..."
- San Juan de la Cruz
"The flesh resists this daily humiliation, first by a frontal attack, and later by hiding itself under the words of the spirit (i.e. in the name of 'evangelical liberty'). We claim liberty from all leg..."
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer