Here, Angie exposes the great lie of that saying, namely, that struggling with temptation, suffering, sickness, indeed struggling with life is all up to us as individuals.
Four things are guaranteed for a true Christian: Tribulation (suffering), Persecution, Temptation, and Eternal Life.
Temptation is suffering mixed with desire.
The temptation to appease suffering populations with populist, selfish measures may grow as the crisis deepens.
And naturally there are plenty even among Chelsea's supporters already suffering from unveiling-fatigue, the temptation to equate these occasions with the wheeling out of the latest puppet prime minster by some banana republic despot.
For more than 50 years, I have easily kept my word, suffering hardly any withdrawal pains and after-meal temptations.
The Maya Sita concept saves Sita from suffering Ravana's custody and being succumb to the temptation of acquiring the illusory deer.
But the temptation now to read The Female Eunuch as outmoded, suffering the fate of all polemical literature, would be to overlook its staying power as an inspiring beacon amid a hurricane of social change.
Case and Deaton's data set covered periods of war and peace, great booms and depressions, and so the temptation has been to look for a deeper and longer-running source of suffering.
The temptation is there: the prime minister's approval rating has dipped below 30% and the League is suffering from contagion.
