Temptation...


Temptation, a powerful tool of Satan...
We are all tempted in this lifetime. However, when you are handed a lemon, why not make lemonade out of it?

Here are some gems from Father Dwyer on the subject of temptation:


1. Everyone is tempted. We cannot get away from temptation.

2. If you are tempted, it is the devil outside knocking to get in.

3. The Garden of Eden where Adam and Eve were tempted by satan,
contrasts sharply with the barren desert in which Christ was tempted by satan.

4. Temptation is so great and I am so weak.

5. Temptation is fire, and we are not made of asbestos.

6. We are as fickle as a feather, blown by every wind of temptation.

7. An iceberg is like temptation. Once past the charm, there is disasterous ruin.

8. Lord help us, never let us fall into the sea of temptation.

9. Temptation is like a chunk of cheese in the devils trap, and he only needs a little bite.

10. Most temptations we cause ourselves.

11. Temptation is the laboratory of GOD to test souls for virtue.

12. If kept under control, temptation can be used for good.

13. Temptation is not sin and can be turned from a stumbling block to a stepping stone.

14. Temptation does not make us weak but strong, not bad but good.

15. We cannot get away from temptation for the same reason that we cannot get away from ourselves.

16. A person asked a priest at what age temptation would cease. The priest said, "I am 84 so thats a good age".
The priest left for a telephone call and when he returned he said, "Make that 85".

Temptation gems from other sources:

1. I understand that temptations seem to stain rather than purify the soul, 
    but this is not really the case. It suffices to know what the great Saint
    Francis de Sales says, namely, that temptations are like the soap which 
    when spead on the laundry seems to soil but in reality cleanses it. Padre Pio

2. Go ahead and try it, you'll like it and you will be like GOD. (temptation), Fr Corapi

3. Temptation steels the just. Imitation of Christ

4. If the winds of temptations are let loose, if you are striking on the 
    rocks of tribulation, look to the Star. Call upon Mary.

5. Temptations are never sin. Fr Luke Zimmer

6. The temptation was to pride. (Adam and Eve). Fr Corapi

7. Let the enemy rage at the gate. Let him knock. Let him push. Let him
    cry. Let him howl. Let him do worse. We know for certain that he cannot 
    enter save by the door to consent. St Francis de Sales

8. Opportunity may knock once, but temptation leans on the bell.

9. Dont worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.

10. Opportunity may knock once, but temptation bangs on your
      front door forever.

11. Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different
     forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is
     already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in
     reality is only a new form of slavery. Pope John Paul II

12. Temptation can be good. If we reject temptation, we become stronger. If
      we accept temptation we become weaker. GOD sends us small temptations to
      make us stronger to ward off a greater sin. It can be likened to a
      vaccination against a serious sin.

Compiled by Bob Stanley
March 9, 2008


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