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Quote · Guidance & Wisdom

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.

Quote · Guidance & Wisdom

Our senses are the landing ports of our spiritual enemies.

Scripture · Faith & Trust

But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of God’s mouth.’”

Quote · Guidance & Wisdom

I lusted to thieve, and did it, compelled by no hunger, nor poverty, but through a cloyedness of well-doing.

Quote · Strength & Perseverance

Our victory does not consist in being insensible to them, but in not consenting to them.

Quote · Hope & Comfort

God never permits such grievous temptations and assaults to try any, save those souls whom He designs to lead on to His own living, highest love.

Quote · Guidance & Wisdom

Idleness and luxury are the devil’s jackals, and find him abundant prey.

Quote · Guidance & Wisdom

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.

Quote · Guidance & Wisdom

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.

Quote · Guidance & Wisdom

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.

Scripture · Guidance & Wisdom

But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed.

Quote · Strength & Perseverance

Every temptation you overcome makes you stronger to overcome others.

Scripture · Strength & Perseverance

Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord promised to those who love him.

Quote · Guidance & Wisdom

It is hard for a man to forget pictures which have been hanging in the galleries of his imagination all his life.

Quote · Faith & Trust

So long as the power to refuse exists within the soul, we may be sure that Love, the life of the soul, is there.

Scripture · Peace & Calm

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Scripture · Guidance & Wisdom

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.

Quote · Strength & Perseverance

And as I spake, I all but enacted it: I all but did it, and did it not.

Scripture · Strength & Perseverance

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Quote · Strength & Perseverance

For I said with myself, ‘Be it done now, be it done now.’

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