He was the prototype for American televangelists – Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen – who said that we are not only tempted by evil, but that we are also tempted to do good.
Through grace, evil is to be resisted. Through grace, those impulses or temptations to do good should be embraced.
“Why is it that any time we speak of temptation we always speak of temptation as something that inclines us to wrong. We have more temptations to become good than we do to become bad.” – Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
Submitted by
L. A. ‘Tony’ Kovach