"No man knows how bad he is till 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 try to resist temptation know how strong it is... We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside of us until we try to fight it: and Christ, because He was the only man who never yielded to temptation, is also the only man who knows to the full extent what temptation means - the only complete realist. Very well, then. The main thing we learn from a serious attempt to practice the Christian virtues is that we fail.
C.S. Lewis
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