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The gospel to me is simply irresistible.

Our prayers lay the track down which Gods power can come. Like a mighty locomotive, his power is irresistible, but it cannot reach us without rails.

If the Cross of Christ is anything to the mind, it is surely everything – the most profound reality and the sublimest mystery. One comes to realize that literally all the wealth and glory of the gospe...

When you pray, do not try to express yourself in fancy words, for often it is the simple repetitious phrases of a little child that our Father in heaven finds most irresistible. Do not strive for verb...

God’s garden, made “in the beginning,” does not lie behind us, but ahead of us, in hope, and, in the meantime, all around us as our place of work. History without gardens would be a wasteland. What th...

No physical appearance is worth not eating pasta for.

In his seminal work, The Cross of Christ , British pastor and author John Stott describes the unique, upside-down kingdom instituted on the cross: ‘Irresistible’ is the very word an Iranian stude...

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

If the Cross of Christ is anything to the mind, it is surely everything – the most profound reality and the sublimest mystery. One comes to realize that literally all the wealth and glory of the gospe...

NPR’s Nancy Updike got an earful when she asked people about what their inner critic sounded like or communicated to them. Here are some of the answers: As part of a segment on the NPR program This A...

I can resist everything except temptation.

I can resist everything except temptation.

Once an idea has taken hold of the brain, it's almost impossible to eradicate.

The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.

Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.

Seduction is never ugly in appearance.

It is hard to get enough of something that almost works.

An ever increasing craving for an ever diminishing pleasure is the formula.

You cannot reason someone out of something he or she was not reasoned into.

“No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from. ”

It is the prerogative and charm of beauty to win hearts.

The temptation once yielded to gains power. The crack in the embankment which lets a drop or two ooze through is soon a hole which lets out a flood.

Sin gets its power by persuading me to believe that I will be happier if I follow it. The power of all temptation is the prospect that it will make me happier.

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

Temptations, of course, cannot be avoided, but because we cannot prevent the birds from flying over our heads, there is no need that we should let them nest in our hair.

The essence of temptation is the invitation to live independently of God.

Have you ever played in a swimming pool and tried to hold a beach ball under the surface? Its tendency-you might even say its penchant and desire-is to rise to the surface. It is “restless” when it is...

Temptations can be got rid of.” “How?” “By yielding to them.

Passion creates, addiction consumes.”

Temptations are an appeal to meet righteous needs in an unrighteous way.