"No man knows how bad he is until he has tried very hard to be good. A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who resist temptation know how strong it is. You find out the strength of the wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.
A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people know very little about badness. They are always giving in.
We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.
And Christ, because He was the only One who never yielded to temptation, is also the only One who really knows what full temptation means. He is the only complete realist."
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