We cannot be tempted with something we have no desire for.

While others still slept, He went away to pray and to renew His strength in communion with His Father. He had need of this, otherwise He would not have been ready for the new day. The holy work of delivering souls demands constant renewal through fellowship with God.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful. It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain. It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also.

Do you really think... that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to. To stake all one's life on a single moment... there is no weakness in that.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

By the anxieties and worries of this life Satan tries to dull man's heart and make a dwelling for himself there.

Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction

Satan can make men dance upon the brink of hell as though they were on the verge of heaven.

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it.

Let no man pretend to fear sin that does not fear temptation also! These two are too closely united to be separated. He does not truly hate the fruit who delights in the root.

A sinning man stops praying; a praying man stops sinning.

The peculiarity of prudery is to place all the more sentinels in proportion as the fortress is the less menaced.