num_pages: 99
description: Satan is always at work breeding sadness and anxiety while providing obstacles that prevent souls from making spiritual progress. In this concise yet powerful book author Dan Burke presents the venerable time-tested wisdom of Catholic mystics to help you understand the influence of the Enemy on your mind and heart and the tactics you need to combat him. With St. Ignatius as his guide Burke presents here an indispensable authoritative manual for engaging in daily battle with the Adversarycombat that is both inevitable and winnable . Burke will help you recognize the ebbs and flows of consolation and desolation and distinguish between the voices of God and of Satan. Best of all you'll come to see the spiritual life not as a science to be learned but as an intuitive art to be practiced as you move with increasing success from habitual sin to sanctity. The battle for our souls is unavoidable. The saints won theirs by learning how to be spiritual warriors and by recognizing that we become stronger through battle and grow weaker from avoidance. With this book as your guide you'll grow in strength and contentment as you 
language: English
title: Spiritual Warfare and the Discernment of Spirits
publisher: Sophia Institute Press