“…the leading demons are eight in number, which are as many as the deadly passions: gluttony, lust, avarice, despondency, anger, slothfulness, vainglory and pride.Each evil spirit wars against us and operates in their own way, depending on the passion they support. However, all the demons work together to immerse us in the deepest possible way in the passions and to make us slaves to sin, in order to separate us from God and lead us to eternal death…Each evil spirit wars against us and operates in their own way, depending on the passion they support. However, all the demons work together to immerse us in the deepest possible way in the passions and to make us slaves to sin, in order to separate us from God and lead us to eternal death. Of course, the power of demons is not rampant and their activity is not without limits. They war against us only as much as God allows – and He never allows them to war against us beyond the limits of our strength . By this our will, our faith and our love for God are tested and refined, but we also give them this right to test us by our negligence, our laziness, our carelessness and, above all, our pride.”
Elder Eustratios Golovanski
~Answers to Questions By Christians