“Sometimes, God on purpose allows Satan to tempt human.One should keep on praying to be kept away of temptation.”
“most suicidal teens are different; they’re tempted to kill themselves. with me, i know i need to die; i should be killed for the things i’ve done. but i keep feeling this nudge, this TEMPTATION TO LIVE. and everyday i pray to god that i never lose that temptation.”
“The goal of temptation is to make you fall. So it is the devil who tempts you, not God!”
“Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.”
“Keep watch and pray, so that you will not give in to temptation. For the spirit is willing, but the body is weak.”
“So that it must be only by the imagination that Satan has access to the soul, to tempt and delude it, or suggest anything to it. And this seems to be the reason why persons that are under the disease of melancholy are commonly so visibly and remarkably subject to the suggestions and temptations of Satan... Innumerable are the ways by which the mind may be led on to all kind of evil thoughts, by the exciting of external ideas in the imagination.”