Forgotten Truths To Set Faith Afire!

(Image Source: Wikimedia Commons ) In our combating of temptation there are six main things to be done: forestall temptation by watchfulness and prayer; resist it manfully; avoid the presumption that you can dally with evil and conquer it at will; avoid the occasions of sin – persons, places and things; acquire a healthy distrust of self and confidence in God's help; and resist temptation promptly and perseveringly. .   Father Charles Hugo Doyle

(Photo by  Shalone Cason  on  Unsplash ) A man generally has to suffer a greater conflict, has to go through a harder fight, in telling the sin he committed then would have been suffered in battling against the temptation and overcoming it.  St. Gregory  

(Image Source: Wikimedia Commons ) I'm just so sick of seeing women "on display" everywhere I go. It's inescapable and it's gotten trashy. I feel sorry for men today – at least the men who are attempting to be gentlemen. Men are visual creatures by design, and now the poor guys can hardly raise their eyes off their shoes without being confronted by half-naked women they're then not supposed to look at. It's more than inconsiderate; it's irresponsible and disrespectful. Jennifer Hartline

(Image Source: Wikimedia Commons ) In our combating of temptation there are six main things to be done: forestall temptation by watchfulness and prayer; resist it manfully; avoid the presumption that you can dally with evil and conquer it at will; avoid the occasions of sin – persons, places and things; acquire a healthy distrust of self and confidence in God's help; and resist temptation promptly and perseveringly.   Father Charles Hugo Doyle