“The Devil tempts that he may ruin and destroy; God tests that He may crown.”
St. Ambrose
“Where God has his church the Devil will have his chapel”
Spanish Proverb
“We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Trials, temptations, disappointments - all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy.”
James Buckham
“About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.”
Tom Wilson
“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”
“There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.”
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