temptation and imprudence

The danger of imprudences is that they fool us. Little by little they put our vigilance to sleep, they dull the edge of our conscience, they lessen the repugnance that sin aroused in us at the beginning, they make us see the law and the divine demands as less strict than they are; they make in conjunction the scope of the liberties we allow ourselves even greater. In parallel fashion, as one borders on sin without succumbing to it, one presumes about one’s own strength. One day, sin will no longer frighten us, and then we are disarmed and we fall. This is the inevitable result of indiscretions.