Know well that the enemy laboureth in all wise to stay thy desire in good and to make thee void of all good exercise.

Satan loves to fish in the troubled waters of a discontented heart.

An idle person is the devil's tennis ball, which he bandies up and down with temptation until at last the ball goes out of play.

They who pray that they may not be led into temptation, must not lead themselves into temptation. 2.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.

The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.

God will never tell us to do something that gratifies the flesh.

I did not intend making a philippic against covetousness, a sin to which I believe no one here is addicted. Let us not, however, plume ourselves in not being guilty of a vice to which, as we have no natural bias so in not committing it, we resist no temptation. What I meant to insist on was, that exchanging a turbulent for a quiet sin, or a scandalous for an orderly one, is not reformation.

I did not intend making a philippic against covetousness, a sin to which I believe no one here is addicted. Let us not, however, plume ourselves in not being guilty of a vice to which, as we have no natural bias so in not committing it, we resist no temptation. What I meant to insist on was, that exchanging a turbulent for a quiet sin, or a scandalous for an orderly one, is not reformation.

It isn't God's job to make sick people healthy. That's the doctors' job. God's job is to make sick people brave, and in my experience, that's something God does really well. Prayer, as I understand it, is not a matter of begging or bargaining. It is the act of inviting God into our lives so that, with God's help, we will be strong enough to resist temptation and resilient enough not to be destroyed by life's unfairness.

Prayer, as I understand it, is not a matter of begging or bargaining. It is the act of inviting God into our lives so that, with God's help, we will be strong enough to resist temptation and resilient enough not to be destroyed by life's unfairness.

Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.