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Lust


Quoted in Putting Your Past Behind You, E. Lutzer, Here's Life, 1990, p. 54

John Piper says that sin (lust for example) "gets its power by persuading me to believe that I will be more happy if I follow it. The power of all temptation is the prospect that it will make me happier."