Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself. Rita Mae Brown

In this sort of temptation and struggle, contempt is the best and easiest method of
winning over the devil. Laugh your adversary to scorn and ask who it is with whom you are
talking. But by all means flee solitude, for the devil watches and lies in wait for you
most of all when you are alone. This devil is conquered by mocking and despising him, not
by resisting and arguing with him. Therefore, Jerome, joke and play games with your wife
and others. In this way you will drive out your diabolical thoughts and take courage Be of
good courage, therefore, and cast these dreadful thoughts out of your mind. Whenever the
devil pesters you with these thoughts, at once seek out the company of men, drink more,
joke and jest, or engage in some other form of merriment. Sometimes it is necessary to
drink a little more, play, jest, or even commit some infraction in defiance and contempt
of the devil in order not to give him an opportunity to make us scrupulous about trifles.
We shall be overcome if we worry too much about falling into some sin.

Accordingly if the devil should say, "Do not drink," you should reply to him,
"On this very account, because you forbid it, I shall drink, and what is more, I
shall drink a generous amount." Thus one must always do the opposite of that which
Satan prohibits. What do you think is my reason for drinking wine undiluted, talking
freely, and eating more often, if it is not to torment and vex the devil who made up his
mind to torment and vex me.—Luther

Temptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him
before.Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it
may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction. John Owen

I know well that when Christ is nearest, Satan also is busiest.— ROBERT MURRAY
McCHEYNE

Unwillingness to accept God’s "way of escape" from temptation frightens
me – what a rebel yet resides within. — JIM ELLIOT

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Graham J Weeks

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