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Self-control, willpower and resisting temptation quotes (view source)
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*"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 Müller]]
*"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 Müller]]
*"The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little." - [[Thomas Merton]]
*"Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don't. You are in good company... You will argue with yourself that there is no way forward. But with God, nothing is impossible. He has more ropes and ladders and tunnels out of pits than you can conceive. Wait. Pray without ceasing. Hope." - [[John Piper]]
*“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''
*“No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.” - [[George Eliot]], ''Daniel Deronda''
*“No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.” - [[George Eliot]], ''Daniel Deronda''
*"We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift." - Lucius Annaeus [[Seneca]]
*“I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent penitence, but not yet moved to begin.” - [[Robert Louis Stevenson]], ''Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde''
*“I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent penitence, but not yet moved to begin.” - [[Robert Louis Stevenson]], ''Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde''