God uses the opposite situation of each fruit to allow us a choice. You can't claim to be good if you have never been tempted to be bad.

Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me... aren't you?

Perplexed and troubled at his bad success the tempter stood, nor had what to reply, discovered in his fraud, thrown from his hope.

Your capacity to say "No" determines your capacity to say "Yes" to greater things.

God never sends us more than we can handle.

Nothing can work me damage except myself. The harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault.

Learn to bend. It's better than breaking.

When our heart wants to live in purity & do the right thing, God will keep us from falling into sin.

The very good people did not convince me; I felt they'd never been tempted. But you knew; you understood; you felt the world outside tugging at one with all its golden hands - and you hated the things it asked of one; you hated happiness bought by disloyalty and cruelty and indifference. That was what I'd never known before - and it's better than anything I've known.

Perhaps I might have resisted a great temptation, but the little ones would have pulled me down.

But he would see clearer, breathe freer in her presence: she was at once the dead weight at his breast and the spar which should float them to safety.

There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to acomplish, both in the natural and moral world.