Gabriele Amorth Quotes

The most frequent weak points in man are, from time to time, always the same: pride, money, and lust.

Therefore, it is necessary to guard our heart and our external senses from indecent spectacles: each of us becomes what we see, what we listen to, and what we read.

The greatest challenge is normalizing the abnormal and making the extraordinary ordinary.

Human greatness has always had sadness for a companion.

Men are free to choose whether they wish to live for God or against Him and therefore to opt for heaven or for hell. We must recognize that God has made everything to make man happy, and in accordance with this plan, God asks man to obey the laws that He has established; but God has also given man the ability to refuse this truth. This is the situation in which all of us are placed.

The devil, through his ordinary action, which is temptation, and through his extraordinary action, which is the subject of this book, tries to destroy the confidence of each man and each woman to love and to be loved.

Father Gabriele Amorth, a Roman Catholic priest, and a skilled and experienced exorcist of the Diocese of Rome, is personally convinced that the Nazis were “all possessed.” He adds: “All you have to do is think about what Hitler—and Stalin—did. Almost certainly they were possessed by the Devil” (Pisa, 2006).

each of us becomes what we see, what we listen to, and what we read.

The second is the release from the principle of authority, that is, from any obligation to obey parents, the Church, the state, and whoever places restrictions in the name of the common good. The

Thus we see everyone—young and old, women, laborers, professionals, politicians, and actors—seeking the “truth” about their future. This sort of crowd will always find another crowd: sorcerers, soothsayers, astrologers, card readers, prana therapists, and fortune-tellers of all kinds. Those who turn to them are motivated by chance, or hope, or desperation, or as an experiment.

If each man — apart from his religion, his culture, his epoch, and any other circumstance — has loved his neighbor, he has also loved the Lord Jesus in person. Any rapport with our brothers and sisters in any locality, any age, or any situation is, all in all, a rapport with Jesus Christ in person. Each human creature who achieves fulfillment in his human relationships is, at the same time, relating to God. For this reason, the love of neighbor is the fundamental precept of life.

which is diabolical obsession. It consists of uncontrollable evil thoughts that torment an individual, especially at night, or sometimes always. In all cases the cure is the same: prayer, fasting, the sacraments, a Christian life, charity, and exorcisms. To identify a possible evil source we use some general, not foolproof, guidelines, because the “negativity”, that is, the demons, tend to attack man in five areas. These attacks are more or less severe, according to their origin. The five areas are the following: health, business, affections, enjoyment of life, and desire for death.

Christ’s centrality in the plan of creation, and its restoration through redemption, is fundamental to understanding God’s plan and the end of the world. Angels and men received an intelligent and free nature. When I am told (by those who confuse predestination with God’s providence) that God already knows who will be saved and who will be damned, and therefore anything we do is useless, I usually answer with four truths that the Bible spells out for us: God wants that everyone be saved; no one is predestined to go to hell; Jesus died for everyone; and everyone is given sufficient graces for salvation.

— it is necessary to educate them from an early age to cultivate a life of faith through prayer, through the Mass, and through association with the various Catholic youth clubs and other similar organizations. It is absolutely necessary to give them a sense of God and the awareness of the existence of sin and the Devil, the tempter who wishes to lead us to a separation from God and therefore to death. These young people, then, when they become older, will probably have developed the right attitudes toward these sects and satanic practices. I am aware that it involves a difficult form of education, but let us always remember that, because of the total absence of beautiful and good ideals, young people today are more exposed to these dangers. When faith disappears, one abandons himself to superstition and occultism.

Psychophonia is the name given by Spiritism (founder Allan Kardec, author of The Medium’s Book) and some other spiritualist traditions to the speaking of spirits through a medium.

the Pope and Father Gabriele Amorth, the Catholic Church’s chief exorcist, who have both spoken against Harry Potter in the media (the Pope did so before he became Pope, when he was Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger and was a prefect for the congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, a position frequently described as the Church’s devil’s advocate).

They receive their clients in a study purposely decked out with small statues of our Lady, the saints, candles, incense, soft light, and everything that serves to create a magical, esoterical atmosphere, so useful in subjugating the naive adventurers. ... They are swindlers who make money at the expense of poor simpletons who entrust themselves to them to resolve their problems.

A la luz de la centralidad de Cristo se conoce el plan de Dios, que creó todas las cosas buenas «por él y para él». Y se conoce la obra de Satanás, el enemigo, el tentador, el acusador, por cuyo influjo entraron en la creación el mal, el dolor, el pecado y la muerte. Y de ahí se desprende el restablecimiento del plan divino, llevado a cabo por Cristo con su sangre

Todo lo que Dios creó tiene un diseño unitario, por lo que cada parte influye sobre el conjunto y cada sombra tiene una repercusión de oscuridad sobre todo el resto.

Christ’s centrality tells us that we can be saved only in his name. It is only in his name that we can win and free ourselves from the enemy of our salvation, Satan. At the end of the most difficult exorcisms, when I am confronted with total demonic possession, I pray the christological hymn of the Letter of Paul to the Philippians (2:6-11). When I speak the words “so that all beings in the heavens, on earth, and in the underworld should bend the knee at the name of Jesus”, I kneel, everyone present kneels, and always the one possessed by the demons is also compelled to kneel. It is a moving and powerful moment. I always feel that all the legions of the angels are surrounding us, kneeling at the name of Jesus.

Father Tomaselli, a now-deceased exorcist, used to say that at times a single blasphemer was sufficient to ruin an entire family with diabolical presences. This case proved his point.

One day Father Candido was expelling a demon. Toward the end of the exorcism, he turned to the evil spirit and sarcastically told him, “Get out of here. The Lord has already prepared a nice, well-heated house for you!” At this, the demon answered, “You do not know anything! It wasn’t he [God] who made hell. It was us. He had not even thought about it.” Similarly, on another occasion, while I was questioning a demon to know whether he had contributed to the creation of hell, I received this answer: “All of us cooperated.

The Gospel tells us of a woman who had been bent by a demon for eighteen years—could this have been a spinal deformation?

Pero la vida es una lucha continua con el mal y para combatir hay que conocer. Para vencer a un enemigo cuya arma principal es el engaño, el conocimiento pleno es la mitad de la salvación... Y el amor que se obtiene con la oración... el triunfo.

El mal ya no es solamente una deficiencia, sino una eficiencia, un ser vivo, espiritual pervertido y pervertidor.

El empeño principal del diablo es hacer que el hombre piense sólo en las cosas de la tierra.

Todo se ha de mirar y vivir en función de la vida eterna.

es sabido que el camino de santidad de muchos de ellos comenzó precisamente por la decisión de apartarse de una vida de lujuria y de vicios.

After I read this book, I have not prayed the Rosary in the same way. It is my hope that this book, brief but compact, will be a light to you, as well.

El dato es evidente, la tentación de una utópica vida cómoda y tranquila nos hace tener miedo de Cristo, que nos quiere tener en su camino de aceptación de la cruz; pero no existe vida sin dolor, sin sufrimiento, sin soledad, sin muerte. En una palabra, no existe vida sin cruz.

Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle, be our protector against the wickedness and snares of the devil; may God rebuke him, we humbly pray; and do thou, O Prince of the heavenly host, by the power of God, thrust into hell Satan and all the evil spirits who wander through the world for the ruin of souls. Amen.

The devil is nothing against the mercy of God.

Luego leí sobre las declaraciones que el maligno le habría manifestado al Padre Gabriele Amorth, el principal exorcista del vaticano, quién durante un exorcismo, le preguntó al demonio sobre la Virgen María y recibió como respuesta: - Ella me enfurece porque es la más humilde de todas las criaturas y porque yo soy el más orgulloso. Porque ella es la más pura de todas las criaturas y yo no. Porque ella es la más obediente a Dios y yo soy el más rebelde.

In the life of the believer there is pain, because it is the way of the Cross that saves us, but there is no

What type of influence do books and especially horror films have on a spiritual life? A negative one.