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Line 188: + + − “A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in." - [[C.S. Lewis]], ''Mere Christianity''+ − − − ― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters (Book on a "senior demon" teaching a "junior demon")
Self-control, willpower and resisting temptation quotes (view source)
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== Resisting temptation quotes ==
== Resisting temptation quotes ==
[[File:George Muller.jpg|thumbnail|right|225px|[[George Müller]] was a Christian evangelist and the director of the Ashley Down orphanage in Bristol, England. ]]
*“A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in." - [[C.S. Lewis]], ''Mere Christianity''
*“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")
“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...”
*"Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in." - [[Billy Sunday]]
*"Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in." - [[Billy Sunday]]