It may be well worth your attention, and to keep in mind, that the temptations of a Christian will often be violent in proportion to the resistance made by him to them. It may seem, but is, no contradiction, that the holier any one is, the more violent will be the temptations which at times he has to endure. A person who yields to temptations frequently, in whole or in part, will not understand their full force. Satan has no inducement to exert his strength against the man who yields easily. But he who is resolute, with the help of his Saviour, not to sin at all; who would die rather than commit willful or mortal sin; who opposes the whole energy of his renewed nature, of the new man in Christ Jesus, to the assaults of the Evil One, will experience the power and craft of the enemy that wages war against him. Satan hates true godliness, and whatever is included in it. He hates it in general and in particular; and whoever proposes, in aiming to lead a godly and Christian life, to serve God in some particular duty, or to do better in some particular course of action, will find it true of the Evil One, and his temptations, as our Lord said of His Apostles, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat. But take comfort and courage from our Lord's added words, true to every earnest and faithful Christian: I have prayed for thee that thy faith Jail not. Have faith in Christ, and Satan will be baffled.
- text taken from Daily Bread - Bring a Few Morning Meditations for the Use of Catholic Christians by Father Richard Waldo Sibthorp