Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that roared u — Temptation

"We must bear in mind, however, that nothing else happens to us as a result of these good or evil thoughts which are suggested to our heart but a mere agitation and excitement which urges us on to deeds either of good or of evil. It is possible for us, when an evil power has begun to urge us on to a deed of evil, to cast away the wicked suggestions and to resist the low enticements and to do absolutely nothing worthy of blame; and it is possible on the other hand when a divine power has urged us on to better things not to follow its guidance, since our faculty of free will is preserved to us in either case. p.283-284"

"I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people: they go commonly together."

"But Satan now is wiser than of yore, And tempts by making rich, not making poor."

"Bell, book and candle shall not drive me back, When gold and silver becks me to come on."

"Most dangerous Is that temptation that doth goad us on To sin in loving virtue."

"Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colours, that are but skin-deep."