Goethe Et Le Mouvement Litteraire de Weimar (1839)

This life was not spasmodic. She did not pass in and out of the holy place, or step on and off the highway of holiness. She dwelt there. That does not imply that never during those thirty years was she overcome by Satan. Once, into a deep sorrow was poured the bitterness of gall through the wickedness of another. The enemy came in like a flood, threatening to overwhelm and root up many precious things, but the Spirit of the Lord was there to lift up a standard against him. ‘If ye forgive not your enemies, neither will your Father forgive you, ’ was the word that came to her heart