Patience is our spiritual defense and humility our greatest weapon against the devil. The greatest balm that Christ’s sacrifice on the Cross gave us is the crushing of the devil.
After the Crucifixion of Christ, the devil is like a snake with no fangs, with no poison; he is like a wild dog without teeth. All poison was removed from the devil; all teeth were removed from the wild dogs that are the demons. So, they are now disarmed, while we are armed with the Cross.
There is nothing, really nothing that the demons can do to a creature of God when we ourselves don’t hand over rights to them. They only make noise; they have no authority over people.
☦️Saint Paisios of Mount Athos
