Spiritual Harm Quotes

I thought that people should know about the dangers of Satanism, and diabolism does exist - there's no question about it.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

Scientology and all the other cults are one-dimensional, and we live in a three-dimensional world. Cults are as dangerous as drugs. They commit the highest crime: the rape of the soul.

Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?

One of the things I think about when we talk about a violence,and relationship to spirituality is that it seems to me when you take something from someone that isn't yours or you hurt someone else, fundamentally, you actually do that to yourself. You actually unmake yourself, you work against your own being and your own matter.

Satan is not fighting churches; he is joining them. He does more harm by sowing tares than by pulling up wheat. He accomplishes more by imitation than by outright opposition.

It is not good practice to become intrigued by Satan and his mysteries. No good can come from getting close to evil.

Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.

Don't give in to cynicism. It is a toxic spiritual state.

Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.

If you could leave your selfishness, you would see how you've been torturing your soul.

Consequently, heretics and schismatics, separated from the unity of this Body, are able to receive the same Sacrament, but with no benefit to themselves; indeed, more to their own harm, in that they are judged the more severely rather than being liberated.

Revenge is an infection of the spirit.

A lot of harm has come in all eras from people attached to one view of 'spiritual' truth.

A murderer of souls, more unjust than Pilate and more cruel than Judas.

Nothing twists and deforms the soul more than a low or unworthy conception of God

Bad theology dishonors God and hurts people. Churches that sever the root of truth may flourish for a season, but they will wither eventually or turn into something besides a Christian church.

The price of peace is to abandon greed and replace it with giving, so that none will be spiritually injured by having more than they need while others in the world still have less than they need.

Stress isn't only a joy stealer. The way we respond to it can be sin.

Sin spoils the spirit's delicacy, and unwillingness deadens its susceptibility.

The most heinous crime of the Church has been perpetrated not against churchmen but against churchgoers. With its poisonous concepts of sin and divine punishment, it's warped and brainwashed countless millions.

For all those who make such stories which are not true, I only say God forgive all these people. I feel sorry for them because they are doing so much harm to themselves.

When you look at the homosexual agenda, I cannot support something that I believe brings nothing but self-destruction, not only physically but of their soul.

Tolerance is a virtue, but like all virtues, when exaggerated, it transforms itself into a vice. We need to be careful of the “tolerance trap” so that we are not swallowed up in it. The permissiveness afforded by the weakening of the laws of the land to tolerate legalized acts of immorality does not reduce the serious spiritual consequence that is the result of the violation of God’s law of chastity.

Violence harms the one who does it as much as the one who receives it. You could cut down a tree with an axe. The axe does violence to the tree, and escapes unharmed. Is that how you see it? Wood is soft compared to steel, but the sharp steel is dulled as it chops, and the sap of the tree will rust and pit it. The mighty axe does violence to the helpless tree, and is harmed by it. So it is with men, though the harm is in the spirit.