St Gregory says that "unless we first tame the enemy dwelling within us, namely our gluttonous appetite, we have not even stood up to engage in the spiritual combat."
St Thomas Aquinas, ST II-II, q. 148, a. 1
The kingdom of heaven suffereth violence
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