Quotes on Resisting Temptation

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.