Spiritual growth seems so impossible in the moment, and so easy in retrospect. After all, this too will pass. We can, and will make it by the grace of God. Every temptation that has come your way is the kind that normally comes to people. Even if a man is detected in some sin, my brothers, the spiritual ones among you should quietly set him back on the right path, not with any feeling of superiority but being yourselves on guard against temptation.
Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall.
Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, and do not give the devil a foothold. Be self-controlled and vigilant always, for your enemy the devil is always about, prowling like a lion roaring for its prey. Resist him, standing firm in your faith, remembering that the strain is the same for all your fellow-Christians in other parts of the world. And after you have born these sufferings a very little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to share his eternal splendor through Christ, will himself make you whole and secure and strong. So the king gave the order, and they brought Daniel and threw him into the lions' den.