"The Devil never tempts us with more success……" — Thomas F. Wilson
"The Devil never tempts us with more success than when he tempts us with a sight of our own good actions."
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Thomas F. Wilson
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16 Quotes by Thomas F. Wilson
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He, who loves praise, loves temptation.
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The commands of God are all designed to make us more happy than we can possibly be without them.
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And by the same token, I appreciate math, because I can't do math. If I have to read a map…
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If you going to live by a certain code - as Bob Dylan said, you gotta serve somebody.
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To serve God, to love God, to enjoy God, is the sweetest freedom in the world.
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The world would use us just as it did the martyrs, if we loved God as they did.
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I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts.
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How it shaped my perception is this: I have become so indelibly identified as a character in pop culture that…
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I was studying acting in New York, and wasn't being hired by anyone to do anything other than to work…
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Our life must answer for our faith.
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We all know that a sympathetic and intelligent listener not only flatters our vanity, but also frequently enables us to…
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Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have…
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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Well begun is half done.
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