Darkness Quote by Dion Fortune

“We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it: and Christ, because he was the…

— C.S. Lewis

Temptation is a suggested short cut to the realization of the highest at which I aim - not towards what I understand as evil,…

— Oswald Chambers

“I once faced a temptation that was so persistent and so overwhelming that I literally believed my whole world would go dark if I…

— Wesley Hill

“Do not grieve over temptations you suffer. When the Lord intends to bestow a particular virtue on us, He often permits us first to…

— Anonymous

“Life's temptations have the purpose of putting our spiritual integrity to the test. To yield to them, however, gives one a precarious and tormented…

— Anonymous

“But once you realize that we are not just thinking things but creatures of habit, you’ll then realize that temptation isn’t just about bad…

— James K.A. Smith

“Do you really think ... that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations that it requires…

— Oscar Wilde

“. . . to survive the dark and often terrifying passage of my life I came to believe certain thing about myself . .…

— Nicole Krauss

“...Since the mind, which was meant to be reasonable and intelligent, has, by dark and inveterate vices, become too weak to adhere joyously to…

— Augustine of Hippo

“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the…

— Oscar Wilde

“We had each of us some whimsy in the brain, which we believed more than anything else, and which discoloured all experience to its…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“But the nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upo them, tend to…

— Aldous Huxley