Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it.

Every day, and every minute of every day, there is a battle going on inside of you between doing what is right, hard, and necessary (like the angel on one shoulder) or doing what is fun, easy, and of little or no value (like the devil on your other shoulder). Every minute of every day, you must fight and win this battle with the Expediency Factor and resist the pull of the Path of Least Resistance if you truly desire to become everything you are capable of becoming.

this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists.

What is best let alone, that accursed thing is not always what least allures.

Lord Jesus, don't let me lie when I say that I love you...and protect me, for today I could betray you.

Evil has insinuated itself into our very souls and rules over us from the very citadel erected to guard us against it.

As a matter of fact, it is often harder to manifest the good that is in us than the evil.

If he desires what is good his temper can become the controlled instrument for fighting the evil that is in himself and helping other men to overcome the obstacles which they meet in the world. He remains free to desire either good or evil.

An institution which is populare because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be; The devil was well, the devil a monk was he.

Oh, this base heart of ours! Hath it not enough tinder in it to set on fire the course of nature? If a spark do but fall into it, any one of our members left to itself would dishonour Christ, deny the Lord that bought us, and turn back into perdition.

But every time you yield to the temptation, the easier it becomes to yield again and the more difficult it becomes to resist the next time.