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"We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are."
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"As soon as a person gives place to the devil in his life, the devil has this person hooked."
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"Be confidently assured that any 'gods' that we build will always have veracious appetites, and sooner or later they will gorge themselves on that which built them."
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"Every sexual sin begins with flattery."
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"The word lust can mean "selfish desire". . . .It is wanting something so badly you will do anything to get it. That is one of the tricks of the devil. It is too high a price to pay."
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"To use a man for what he is naturally best fitted is to keep him, if one can, from apostasy and dissatisfaction. At the same time, life's temptations come most often from that for which one has the greatest aptitude."
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"Thou therefore on these Herbs, and Fruits, and Flow'rsFeed first, on each Beast next, and Fish, and Fowl, No homely morsels, and whatever thingThe Scyth of Time mows down, devour unspar'd, Till I in Man residing through the Race, His thoughts, his looks, words, actions all infect, And season him thy last and sweetest prey."
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"Pleasure, in itself harmless, may become mischievous, by endearing to us a state which we know to be transient and probatory, and withdrawing our thoughts from that of which every hour brings us nearer to the beginning, and of which no length of time will bring us to the end. Mortification is not virtuous in itself, nor has any other use, but that it disengages us from the allurements of sense. In the state of future perfection, to which we all aspire, there will be pleasure without danger, and security without restraint."
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"I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me."
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"Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it."
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"The temptation to spend money increases as a person's opportunities increase."
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"Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you."
Will
"Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault."
Man
"A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself."
Man
"At the Day of Judgment, we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done."
Religion
"Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it."
Intelligence
"Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible."
Love
"What most of all hinders heavenly consolation is that you are too slow in turning yourself to prayer."
Religion
"All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it."
Man
"I would far rather feel remorse than know how to define it."
Emotional
"He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver."
Love
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