Guidance & Wisdom
But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed.
But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
The way in which Satan ensnares persons, to bring them into the net, and to bring trouble upon them by becoming sureties, is, that he seeks to represent the matter as if there were no danger connected with that particular case.
Our senses are the landing ports of our spiritual enemies.
Let no man say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God,” for God can’t be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.
Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
It is hard for a man to forget pictures which have been hanging in the galleries of his imagination all his life.
Riches are thorns; art thou angry because God hath pulled away a thorn from thee? Perhaps thy affections, which are the feet of the soul, might have stuck so fast in this golden clay that they could not have ascended up to heaven.
I lusted to thieve, and did it, compelled by no hunger, nor poverty, but through a cloyedness of well-doing.
Consider what ways, what companies, what opportunities, what studies, what businesses, what conditions, have at any time given, or do usually give, advantages to thy distempers, and set thyself heedfully against them all.
Idleness and luxury are the devil’s jackals, and find him abundant prey.
Nature is not affected with the harms that others have met with, especially if that thing upon which they look has an attracting virtue upon the foolish eye.
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