Soul Food: Week of January 21, 2024

“Soul Food” is a regularly updated calendar of meditations sometimes questioning conventional wisdom & often suggesting eternal values …

Sunday: I can resist everything except temptation. Oscar Wilde

Monday: The best way to resist temptation is to avoid it. Prevention is far, far better than repentance. Spencer W. Kimball

Tuesday: Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory. Frederick W. Faber

Wednesday: There hath no temptation taken hold of you but such as is common to man.  But God is faithful; He will not suffer you to be tempted beyond that which you are able to bear [and] … will also make a way to escape … 1 Corinthians

Thursday: Temptation to do good is always good.

Friday: Where there is no temptation, there is no glory.  Italian Proverb

Saturday: Even Jesus wept bloody tears in the Garden of Gethsemane at the thought of His impending Crucifixion, but the Christ remained true to His mission on earth.

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