Behind every temptation is a divine reward in resisting it; behind every divine opportunity is a reward in taking advantage of it.

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

Never allow anything to divert you from your insight into Jesus Christ. It is the true test of whether you are spiritual or not. To be unspiritual means that other things have a growing fascination for you. Since mine eyes have looked on Jesus, I've lost sight of all beside, So enchained my spirit's vision, Gazing on the Crucified.

I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one" (John 17:15). We are to be in the world but not of it—to be separated internally, not externally (see John 17:16).

You and I must live temptation-aware; to fail to do so is to fail to recognize the fallenness of the world that happens to be the address where we live.

Only powerful, rescuing grace can take you from "Let me do what I want to do" to "Guard me against the temptation to do what you know is best for me not to do.

Although Potiphar’s wife spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused to go to bed with her or even be near her.

Then she told him the same story: “The Hebrew slave you brought us came to me to make sport of me,

You continued to provoke the LORD at Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah.

And when they entered the forest and saw the flowing honey, not one of them put his hand to his mouth, because they feared the oath.

“I have made a covenant with my eyes. How then could I gaze with desire at a virgin?

Do not let my heart be drawn to any evil thing or take part in works of wickedness with men who do iniquity; let me not feast on their delicacies.