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After an error you need not only to remove the causes but also to correct the error itself: after a sin you must not only, if possible, remove the temptation, you must also go back and repent the sin itself. In each

After an error you need not only to remove the causes but also to correct the error itself: after a sin you must not only, if possible, remove the temptation, you must also go back and repent the sin itself. In each case an 'undoing' is required.

C. S. Lewis
Errors, Temptation, Needs

Our temptation is to look eagerly for the minimum that will be accepted. We are in fact very like honest but reluctant taxpayers.

C. S. Lewis
Temptation, Looks, Facts
C. S. Lewis (2009). “A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works”, p.39, Harper Collins

Yes, pride is a perpetual nagging temptation. Keep on knocking it on the head, but don't be too worried about it. As long as one knows one is proud, one is safe from the worst form of pride.

C. S. Lewis
Pride, Long, Temptation

We must learn by experience to avoid either trains of thought or social situations which for us (not necessarily for everyone) lead to temptations. Like motoring-don't wait till the last moment before you put on the brakes but put them on, gently and quietly, while the danger is still a good way off.

C. S. Lewis
Train Of Thought, Waiting, Temptation

We must get over wanting to be needed-this is the hardest of all temptations to resist

C. S. Lewis
Temptation, Hardest, Needed

Some have paid me an undeserved compliment by supposing that my Letters were the ripe fruit of many years' study in moral and ascetic theology. They forgot that there is an equally reliable, though less creditable, way of learning how temptation works.

C. S. Lewis
Years, Supposing That, Temptation
C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Screwtape Letters: Annotated Edition”, p.9, Harper Collins

The higher the stakes, the greater the temptation to lose your temper.

C. S. Lewis
Inspirational, Temptation, Stakes
C. S. Lewis (1964). “Reflections on the Psalms”, p.37, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

This is my endlessly recurrent temptation: to go down to that Sea, and there neither dive nor swim nor float, but only dabble and splash, careful not to get out of my depth and holding on to the lifeline which connects me with my things temporal.

C. S. Lewis
Sea, Temptation, Swim
C. S. Lewis (2009). “A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works”, p.39, Harper Collins

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