I should have shouted "No" and left him. "But at least"…

“Matar slowly approached the coffee and picked it up carefully, like it might bite him. He removed the lid and sniffed. "It's not poisoned," I said. "What are you? You conjure things from nowhere." "Perhaps I'm an afrit, a genie. Perhaps I'm an angel." Cox watched this exchange with interest. "Perhaps you are Shaitan," said Matar. I raised my eyebrows and Cox obligingly said, "Satan." I smiled a smile that didn't touch my eyes. The blood drained from Matar's face. "Perhaps," I said. "Welcome to hell.”

— Steven Gould

All temptations can be handled easily when we know how, because no temptation is a temptation at all unless we are entertaining it.

— Sterling W Sill

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— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

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— David Jeremiah

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— Mark Twain

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— C.S. Lewis

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— Donna Lynn Hope

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— Dennis Edwards

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— Voltairine de Cleyre

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— Anonymous

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— Thomas a Kempis

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— Arthur Koestler

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— Oswald Chambers

The temptations of God were always more dangerous for mankind than those of Satan.

— Arthur Koestler