The good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.

Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Life is simply a cricket match, with temptation as the bowler.

For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.

Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Could ye not watch with me one hour?Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.

since Satan is always breathing down our necks, and is ready and scheming to plunge us into a thousand perils, we ought to be no less watchful and on our guard.

Why is it that any time we speak of temptation we always speak of temptation as something that inclines us to wrong. We have more temptations to become good than we do to become bad.

In moments when fever, agony, and pain make it hard to pray, the suggestion of prayer that comes from merely holding the rosary - or better still, from caressing the Crucifix at the end of it - is tremendous!

No soul ever fell away from God without giving up prayer. Prayer is that which establishes contact with the divine power and opens the invisible resources of heaven. However dark the way, when we pray, temptation can never master us. The first step downward in the average soul is the giving up of the practice of prayer, the breaking of the circuit with divinity, and the proclamation of one's own self-sufficiency.

Neglect of watching, prayer and mortifications produces an inner weariness about being too close to the Lord.