Quotes about Inner-battle

Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.

This wasn't really about the scale or what clothing size I was; it was about this battle that raged in my heart.

Who struggles more than those who strive to overcome themselves?

The foes from whom we pray to be delivered are our own passions, appetites, and follies; and against these there is always need that we should war.

This needed work is indeed "spiritual warfare," as the desert monks called it, since it takes conscious and sustained struggle to be aware of the shadow self—which only takes ever more subtle disguises the "holier" you get.