Family Guide to Spiritual Warfare Quotes

“Be brave and pray for miracles in your family. We insult the Lord God when we fail to ask for big miracles with expectant faith. If your spouse or child needs radical conversion to Christ, anticipate the miracle.”
― Kathleen Beckman, Family Guide to Spiritual Warfare: Strategies for Deliverance and Healing

“With every beat of my heart, your holy name is praised; with every beat of my heart, I proclaim my love for you. With every beat of my heart, I long for you. With every beat of my heart, I trust in you.”
― Kathleen Beckman, Family Guide to Spiritual Warfare: Strategies for Deliverance and Healing

“Without prayer, we can neither discern the spirits properly nor hear the heartbeat of our divine Captain, from whom we receive our marching orders. Without prayer, we sabotage ourselves and our families; without prayer, we are simply incapacitated in spiritual combat.”
― Kathleen Beckman, Family Guide to Spiritual Warfare: Strategies for Deliverance and Healing

“Faith is an act of trust. Trust in God goes beyond appearance and feelings. Faith is trusting that what has been revealed to us by God is true. It’s believing in God’s plan of salvation.”
― Kathleen Beckman, Family Guide to Spiritual Warfare: Strategies for Deliverance and Healing

“Have faith in the sacrament of Reconciliation. Resist the devil when he reminds you of your confessed sins and taunts you. Immediately place yourself in the merciful Heart of Jesus; have confidence in the truth of divine forgiveness of confessed sins.”
― Kathleen Beckman, Family Guide to Spiritual Warfare: Strategies for Deliverance and Healing

“Imprecatory prayer. This prayer spoken to demons issues a direct summons, adjuration, or command for them to leave. Lay persons can and should pray imprecatory prayers for themselves or for those for whom they have spiritual authority. For example: In the name of Jesus Christ, by the infinite power of your holy Cross, I cast out from me (or my spouse or child) the demon of lust (name the spirit/temptation). Evil spirit, be gone from me. Holy Spirit, grant an infusion of divine love to strengthen me. Amen.”
― Kathleen Beckman, Family Guide to Spiritual Warfare: Strategies for Deliverance and Healing

“Lord Jesus Christ, by the infinite merits of your life, death, and resurrection, mercifully liberate my nephew Ryan from any and all evil spirits that are attacking him. Graciously fill him with your Holy Spirit. Thank you, Lord.”
― Kathleen Beckman, Family Guide to Spiritual Warfare: Strategies for Deliverance and Healing

“Exorcists teach that being in the state of grace makes your prayers for the family more efficacious.”
― Kathleen Beckman, Family Guide to Spiritual Warfare: Strategies for Deliverance and Healing

“Lord Jesus, unite my heart to yours, please.
Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us, and protect our children.”
― Kathleen Beckman, Family Guide to Spiritual Warfare: Strategies for Deliverance and Healing

“Demons want us to believe that we equal our wounds. If we are our wounds, we live in them, and so can demons.”
― Kathleen Beckman, Family Guide to Spiritual Warfare: Strategies for Deliverance and Healing

“While the battlefield is our mind, it is our heart that demons aim to wound. When we lose heart, hopelessness settles in, despair weighs down, depression engulfs, and demons gain some ground in us.”
― Kathleen Beckman, Family Guide to Spiritual Warfare: Strategies for Deliverance and Healing

“The heart is the dwelling-place where I am, where I live . . . the place “to which I withdraw.” . . . The heart is the place of decision, deeper than our psychic drives. It is the place of truth, where we choose life or death. It is the place of encounter, because as image of God we live in relation: it is the place of covenant. (CCC 2563)”
― Kathleen Beckman, Family Guide to Spiritual Warfare: Strategies for Deliverance and Healing

“Lukewarmness is a spiritual danger zone. A lukewarm heart becomes self-absorbed in lazy living that stifles sacrificial love. Lukewarm people live to satisfy their own comfort. Gradually, such Christians end up being content with a mediocre life, while Christ calls us to the abundant life (see John 10:10).”
― Kathleen Beckman, Family Guide to Spiritual Warfare: Strategies for Deliverance and Healing

“Scripture teaches that some demons can be evicted only by prayer and fasting. Interior mortification is a powerful weapon. Small sacrifices offered with love strengthen our armor. Promote a form of fasting in your family.”
― Kathleen Beckman, Family Guide to Spiritual Warfare: Strategies for Deliverance and Healing

“The virtue of patience disarms the tactics of the devil, who loves drama. Demons tempt us to treat ourselves and family members impatiently. These temptations turn us against ourselves and loved ones, making us angry and resentful. Bearing with yourself requires patience. Bearing with your loved ones calls for greater patience.”
― Kathleen Beckman, Family Guide to Spiritual Warfare: Strategies for Deliverance and Healing

“demons are extremely legalistic and know who has authentic spiritual authority over them. The diocesan bishop has jurisdiction in his diocese, as do the mandated exorcist and his team. Your parish is considered your spiritual home; your parish priest, your spiritual father. For your spiritual protection, be aware of authority and jurisdiction.”
― Kathleen Beckman, Family Guide to Spiritual Warfare: Strategies for Deliverance and Healing

“Often, genuine relief from diabolical attacks can be attained by making a good sacramental Confession, praying daily deliverance prayers, fasting, and leading a sacramental life. These are effective, proven remedies. All levels of demonic affliction require such remedies.”
― Kathleen Beckman, Family Guide to Spiritual Warfare: Strategies for Deliverance and Healing

“The afflicted person (and his family) should begin praying deliverance prayers, renouncing evil, repenting of sin, repairing damage done to others, and solidifying his relationship with God and the Church.”
― Kathleen Beckman, Family Guide to Spiritual Warfare: Strategies for Deliverance and Healing

“What does it say about us when, at Mass, we sneer at the mothers of crying children or at couples with many children? The devil is a patient predator who studies his prey and knows well our weaknesses. Cultivate a vigilant, virtuous, valiant heart.”
― Kathleen Beckman, Family Guide to Spiritual Warfare: Strategies for Deliverance and Healing

“All sin, including the sin of Adam and Eve, is based in distrust of God.”
― Kathleen Beckman, Family Guide to Spiritual Warfare: Strategies for Deliverance and Healing

“By deception and psychic violence, the devil tempts us to sin, seduces us to participate in evil. The diabolic aim is to separate us from God: the devil knows that if we reject God, the darkness gains some power over us.”
― Kathleen Beckman, Family Guide to Spiritual Warfare: Strategies for Deliverance and Healing

“Fallen man is self-centered. We orbit ourselves instead of God. In this state, we enter enemy territory. Satan is a tempter, and as with the Fall, he still directly influences us to reject divine grace and to choose sin.”
― Kathleen Beckman, Family Guide to Spiritual Warfare: Strategies for Deliverance and Healing

“How often do we bow down, back off, compromise, or water down the truth because we care so much what others think? Even when it comes to our loved ones, we are often tempted to tune out disordered behavior or patterns of sin occurring under our roof.”
― Kathleen Beckman, Family Guide to Spiritual Warfare: Strategies for Deliverance and Healing

“We may call upon the power of the Precious Blood for our loved ones by praying: Lord Jesus, I implore you to cover my loved one in your saving Blood. For the family, we pray: May the Precious Blood of the Victorious Lamb flow within us, bring us to conversion, and anoint us for spiritual combat.”
― Kathleen Beckman, Family Guide to Spiritual Warfare: Strategies for Deliverance and Healing

“In 1981, Sr. Lucia wrote in a letter to Cardinal Carlo Caffarra: “The final battle between the Lord and the kingdom of Satan will be about marriage and the family. Don’t be afraid . . .because whoever works for the sanctity of marriage and the family will always be fought against and opposed in every way, because this is the decisive issue. . . . Nevertheless, Our Lady has already crushed his head.”38”
― Kathleen Beckman, Family Guide to Spiritual Warfare: Strategies for Deliverance and Healing

“The evil spirits do not play fair and are happy to kick us when we are down or distracted. We can easily fall into escapism, which is imbued with diabolical snares. Our spiritual armor must remain well oiled with the balm of faith-filled prayer.”
― Kathleen Beckman, Family Guide to Spiritual Warfare: Strategies for Deliverance and Healing

“Defending children from evil is the responsibility and privilege of parents.”
― Kathleen Beckman, Family Guide to Spiritual Warfare: Strategies for Deliverance and Healing

“Fear is useless — immediately pray an act of faith in Christ.”
― Kathleen Beckman, Family Guide to Spiritual Warfare: Strategies for Deliverance and Healing

“In part, the proliferation of diabolical attacks is related to the rejection of God, faith, and the gospel, and the embrace of relativism, moral compromise, and love of the world.”
― Kathleen Beckman, Family Guide to Spiritual Warfare: Strategies for Deliverance and Healing

“Fall in love with Christ, because love alone compels a warrior to fight against sin and evil and to attain victory over himself and demons.”
― Kathleen Beckman, Family Guide to Spiritual Warfare: Strategies for Deliverance and Healing