Quotes About Unclean Spirit

St. Augustine repeatedly speaks of the power inherent in the desire for Baptism. " I do not hesitate," he says in his treatise De Baptismo against the Donatists, " to place the Catholic catechumen, who is burning with the love of God, before the baptized heretic. . . . The centurion Cornelius, before Baptism, was better than Simon [Magus], who had been baptized. For Cornelius, even before Baptism, was filled with the Holy Ghost, while Simon, after Baptism, was puffed up with an unclean spirit.

For the unclean spirit enters easily into a man, and easily goes out from him.

Suddenly a man with an unclean spirit cried out in the synagogue:

At this, the unclean spirit threw the man into convulsions and came out with a loud shriek.

As soon as Jesus got out of the boat, He was met by a man with an unclean spirit, who was coming from the tombs.

For Jesus had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. Many times it had seized him, and though he was bound with chains and shackles, he had broken the chains and been driven by the demon into solitary places.