Saturday, February 13, 2016

The greatest temptations (Thomas Merton)

  The greatest temptations are not those  
 that solicit our consent to obvious sin,  
 but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods. 

--Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island

Image source:  James Tissot, Jésus tenté dans le désert (ca.1886-1894)

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