“A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.”
C.S. Lewis
“We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people, is that they don't want to discourage it completely.”
Benjamin Franklin
“About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.”
Tom Wilson
“Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.”
Robert Orben
“As the Sandwich-Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptations we resist”
“What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely.”
Franklin P. Jones
