When I am violently beset with temptation (Edwards)
February 23rd, 2007 | Published in Psychology, Life, Quotes, Religion
Saturday forenoon, July 27, 1722. When I am violently beset with temptation, or cannot rid myself of evil thoughts, [I resolve] to do something in arithmetic, or geometry, or some other study, which necessarily engages all of my thoughts, and unavoidably keeps them from wandering.
–Jonathan Edwards, “Diary” in The Works of Jonathan Edwards, lxxii