The Warfare of the Soul: Practical Studies in the Life of Temptation

by Shirley Carter Hughson

[[18]] 2 Cor. xii, 9. "Weakness is the guardian of our strength."—Pusey, Parochial Sermons, II, 337, quoting St. Greg. Mag.

[[19]] Ps. xx, 2.

[[20]] Imitation, III, xxxv. "It happens sometimes that men's souls are shipwrecked through evil thoughts, but also it is by the entering in of such thoughts that we become worthy of being crowned."—Verba Seniarum, x, 86. Quoted by Hannay in The Wisdom of the Desert, p. 221.

[[21]] Imitation, I, xiii.

[[22]] Andrewes, Sermons, Vol. V, p. 501.

[[23]] Archbishop Leighton, Commentary, in loc.

[[24]] Andrewes, Sermons, Vol. V, p. 501-502.

[[25]] Rom. xiv, 17.

[[26]] Phil. iv, 7.

[[27]] Imitation, I, xiii.