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| | *"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]] |
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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 Muller]] | + | *"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]] |
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| − | “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'' |
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| − | “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'' |
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| − | “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'' |
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| | == See also == | | == See also == |