TruthOrator Daily Mind Refreshment And Food For Thought
A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in. --C.S. Lewis
realize that the greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity, or power, but self-rejection. Success, popularity, and power can indeed present a great temptation, but their seductive quality often comes from the way they are part of the much larger temptation to self-rejection. When we have come to believe in the voices that call us worthless and unlovable, then success, popularity, and power are easily perceived as attractive solutions. The real trap, however, is self-rejection. As soon as someone accuses me or criticizes me, as soon as I am rejected, left alone, or abandoned, I find myself thinking, "Well, that proves once again that I am a nobody." ... [My dark side says,] I am no good... I deserve to be pushed aside, forgotten, rejected, and abandoned. Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the "Beloved." Being the Beloved constitutes the core truth of our existence. --Henri J.M. Nouwen
Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth? --Charlotte Brontë
Self-knowledge is better than self-control any day," Raquel said firmly. "And I know myself well enough to know how I act around cookies. --Claudia Gray
People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked. --Terry Pratchett
No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from. --George Eliot
the devil doesn't come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you've ever wished for ... --Tucker Max
Whenever the devil harasses you, seek the company of men or drink more, or joke and talk nonsense, or do some other merry thing. Sometimes we must drink more, sport, recreate ourselves, and even sin a little to spite the devil, so that we leave him no place for troubling our consciences with trifles. We are conquered if we try too conscientiously not to sin at all. So when the devil says to you: do not drink, answer him: I will drink, and right freely, just because you tell me not to. --Martin Luther
Temptation is the feeling we get when encountered by an opportunity to do what we innately know we shouldn't. --Steve Maraboli
The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods. --Thomas Merton
Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. You are born for this only; all other duties are self-created and self-imposed owing to ignorance. --Sivananda Saraswati
Sometimes we have to behave indifferent towards people who proclaim their love to us, just to see if they are really different. --Michael Bassey Johnson
The question of why evil exists is not a theological question, for it assumes that it is possible to go behind the existence forced upon us as sinners. If we could answer it then we would not be sinners. We could make something else responsible...The theological question does not arise about the origin of evil but about the real overcoming of evil on the Cross; it ask for the forgiveness of guilt, for the reconciliation of the fallen world --Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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realize that the greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity, or power, but self-rejection. Success, popularity, and power can indeed present a great temptation, but their seductive quality often comes from the way they are part of the much larger temptation to self-rejection. When we have come to believe in the voices that call us worthless and unlovable, then success, popularity, and power are easily perceived as attractive solutions. The real trap, however, is self-rejection. As soon as someone accuses me or criticizes me, as soon as I am rejected, left alone, or abandoned, I find myself thinking, "Well, that proves once again that I am a nobody." ... [My dark side says,] I am no good... I deserve to be pushed aside, forgotten, rejected, and abandoned. Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the "Beloved." Being the Beloved constitutes the core truth of our existence. --Henri J.M. Nouwen
Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth? --Charlotte Brontë
Self-knowledge is better than self-control any day," Raquel said firmly. "And I know myself well enough to know how I act around cookies. --Claudia Gray
People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked. --Terry Pratchett
No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from. --George Eliot
the devil doesn't come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you've ever wished for ... --Tucker Max
Whenever the devil harasses you, seek the company of men or drink more, or joke and talk nonsense, or do some other merry thing. Sometimes we must drink more, sport, recreate ourselves, and even sin a little to spite the devil, so that we leave him no place for troubling our consciences with trifles. We are conquered if we try too conscientiously not to sin at all. So when the devil says to you: do not drink, answer him: I will drink, and right freely, just because you tell me not to. --Martin Luther
Temptation is the feeling we get when encountered by an opportunity to do what we innately know we shouldn't. --Steve Maraboli
The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods. --Thomas Merton
Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. You are born for this only; all other duties are self-created and self-imposed owing to ignorance. --Sivananda Saraswati
Sometimes we have to behave indifferent towards people who proclaim their love to us, just to see if they are really different. --Michael Bassey Johnson
The question of why evil exists is not a theological question, for it assumes that it is possible to go behind the existence forced upon us as sinners. If we could answer it then we would not be sinners. We could make something else responsible...The theological question does not arise about the origin of evil but about the real overcoming of evil on the Cross; it ask for the forgiveness of guilt, for the reconciliation of the fallen world --Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Good Morning My Kings and Queens
I Appreciate You
K.O.P Bashorun.
'Your Life Orator'
CEO/Founder
Feel Free to Share
(c)2015
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