Those who operate through the Holy Spirit are more equipped to resist temptation.
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What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely.
Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values - and witnesses.
We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.
Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.
I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
A priest encounters temptation every day, and some of that desire is very natural.
Temptation coaxes us toward sin, and sin leads to sickness and death, and ultimately confinement in the realm of the evil one.
We are 100 percent responsible for the pursuit of holiness, but at the same time we are 100 percent dependent upon the Holy Spirit to enable us in that pursuit. The pursuit of holiness is not a pull-yourself-up-by-your-own-bootstraps approach to the Christian life.
Why resist temptation? There will always be more.