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Self-control, willpower and resisting temptation quotes (view source)
Revision as of 03:28, April 23, 2024
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“Whatever their bodies do affects their souls. It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out...”
“Whatever their bodies do affects their souls. It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out...”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters (Book on a "senior demon" teaching a "junior demon")
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters (Book on a "senior demon" teaching a "junior demon")
*"Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in." - [[Billy Sunday]]
*"It is a common temptation of Satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our enjoyment is gone; as if it were of no use to read the Scriptures when we do not enjoy them, and as if it were no use to pray when we have no spirit of prayer." - [[George Muller]]
“Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?” - Charlotte Brontë, ''Jane Eyre''
“Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?” - Charlotte Brontë, ''Jane Eyre''