I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it

'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.

Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.

Bell, book and candle shall not drive me back
When gold and silver becks me to come on.

Bell, book and candle shall not drive me back
When gold and silver becks me to come on.

Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as
the tempter is in pressing it, read more

Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as
the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a
surer measure.

O cunning enemy that, to catch a saint,
With saints dost bait thy hook: most dangerous
Is read more

O cunning enemy that, to catch a saint,
With saints dost bait thy hook: most dangerous
Is that temptation that doth goad us on
To sin in loving virtue.

Honest bread is very well--it's the butter that makes the
temptation.

Honest bread is very well--it's the butter that makes the
temptation.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light.

Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light.