Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.
The whole mystery of temptation is to have sins suggested to us, and to be swept after them by a sudden enthusiasm, which sometimes feels as strong as the Spirit of God ever made in us the enthusiasm for virtue.
The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.
Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.
Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.
Temptation coaxes us toward sin, and sin leads to sickness and death, and ultimately confinement in the realm of the evil one.