We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

Foulgrin: If you can keep Fletcher from saying a definitive no to a temptation, you've won. Whatever is not a no is merely a postponed yes. (advice to the tempter Squaltaint)

The lustful man walks with a noose around his neck.

His first step is to make temptation appear as a natural desire. It is something unequivocally physical and human.

As Paul said in Romans 7:16 and 18, "I do what I do not want to do… For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out" (NIV).

He found Luciana sitting alone at a table in the Allied officers' night club, where the drunken Anzac major who had brought her there had been stupid enough to desert her for the ribald company of some singing comrades at the bar. All right, I'll dance with you, she said, before Yossarian could even speak. But I won't let you sleep with me. Who asked you? Yossarian asked her. You don't want to sleep with me? she exclaimed with surprise. I don't want to dance with you.

Don't you see what that means? Now you can take me off combat duty and send me home. They're not going to send a crazy man out to be killed, are they?" "Who else will go?

Romans 6 - Our flesh is the instrument that Satan works through. When we say no to the flesh, we say no to the devil.

The devil will give up when he sees that you are not going to give in.

Compromise means to go just a little bit below what you know is right. It's just a little bit, but it's the little foxes that spoil the vine.

Satan takes our circumstances and builds strongholds in our lives—how he wages war on the battlefield of the mind. But, thank God, we have weapons to tear down the strongholds. God doesn't abandon us and leave us helpless. First Corinthians 10:13 promises us that God will not allow us to be tempted beyond what we can bear, but with every temptation He will also provide the way out, the escape.

If you are a believer in Jesus Christ, you have power and you can resist temptation!