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"Never forget that when we are dealing with any pleasure in its healthy and normal and satisfying form, we are, in a sense, on the Enemy's ground...All the same, it is His invention, not ours...All we can do is to encourage the humans to take the pleasures which our Enemy has produced, at times, or in ways, or in degrees, which He has forbidden...An ever increasing craving for an ever diminishing pleasure is the formula."
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"There's nothing wrong with the fire.. if you don't get too close. - Patch."
"Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it."
"It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow."
"Temptation is stronger in the minds of people who are in doubt. Prayer makes it weaker."
"Temptation is a strong weapon that Satan uses against the children of God."
"The devil will do everything to get you disappointed in God."
"So spake the enemy of mankind, enclosedIn serpent, inmate bad! and toward EveAddressed his way: not with indented wave,Prone on the ground, as since; but on his rear,Circular base of rising folds, that toweredFold above fold, a surging maze! his headCrested aloft, and carbuncle his eyes;With burnished neck of verdant gold, erectAmidst his circling spires, that on the grassFloated redundant: pleasing was his shapeAnd lovely; never since of serpent-kindLovelier."
"Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it."
"The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little."
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"I daren't come and drink," said Jill. Then you will die of thirst," said the Lion.Oh dear!" said Jill, coming another step nearer."I suppose I must go and look for another stream then."There is no other stream," said the Lion."
"The settled happiness and security which we all desire, God withholds from us by the very nature of the world: but joy pleasure and merriment, He has scattered broadcast. We are never safe, but we have plenty of fun and some ecstasy ... Our Father refreshes us on the journey with some pleasant inns, but he will not encourage us to mistake them for home."
"Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods."
"Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable."
"Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives."
"This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted."
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