Resistance is not futile

CS Lewis said "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. After all, you find out the strength of the German army by fighting it, not by giving in. 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, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by 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 man who never yielded to temptation, is also the only man who knows to the full what temptation means - the only complete realist."

Some of the people I admire the most are those who have remained strong despite temptations to succumb. The longer we hold on, the less we give in, the more our capacity to withstand increases and is strengthened. And the greatest thing is that we're not alone. We have the Holy Ghost, Jesus Christ, angels seen and unseen who are there to help us be good, to help us be strong.

We can do it.