Thoughts from St Alphonsus for Every Day-April 24

FROM the look proceeds the thought; from the thought the desire. If Eve had not looked at the forbidden apple, she would not have fallen. The devil first tempts us to look, then to desire, and afterwards, to consent.
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From Thoughts from St Alphonsus for Every Day
Compiled by Rev. C. McNeiry, C.SS.R.
Imprimatur: Joseph Hull, C.SS.R., Prov. Angl. Sup.
Nihil Obstat: Innocentlus Apap, O.P., S.T.M., Censor Deptutatus.
Imprimatur: Edm. Can. Surmont, Vicarius Generalis.
Westmonasterii, Die 9a Junii, 1927.
First published 1927