Successful resistance to temptation may result in an increase of moral muscle, but that is because one is going to need it. A temptation resisted may become more, not less, fierce.

Moral effort needs mental effort, and the mental effort needs to be focused on that victory and turned into prayer for the victory to be applied today and tomorrow. The sacraments will help here, but spiritual guidance and counsel will help a great deal too.

to a viewpoint that was contrary to God's word put Eve on a slippery slope that led to disobedience

the will of God will never lead you where the grace of God cannot keep you. I

The highest freedom is the freedom from evil, not the freedom of doing evil.

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Sin and the child of God are incompatible. They may occasionally meet, but they cannot live together in harmony .

The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.

First John 3:9 does not mean that we cannot sin; it means that if we obey the life of God in us, we need not sin.

Satan does not tempt us just to make us do wrong things—he tempts us to make us lose what God has put into us through regeneration, namely, the possibility of being of value to God. He does not come to us on the premise of tempting us to sin, but on the premise of shifting our point of view, and only the Spirit of God can detect this as a temptation of the devil.

Yet 1 John 3:9 does not mean that we cannot sin—it simply means that if we will obey the life of God in us, that we do not have to sin.

Temptation is not something we can escape; in fact, it is essential to the well-rounded life of a person. Beware of thinking that you are tempted as no one else—what you go through is the common inheritance of the human race, not something that no one has ever before endured. God does not save us from temptations—He sustains us in the midst of them