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)

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

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