The Antidote Against Evil
The late Dean Stanley is the author of the following excellent advice: Leisure misused—an idle hour waiting to be employed, idle hands with no occupation, idle and empty minds with nothing to think—these are the main temptations to evil. Fill up that empty void, employ these vacant hours, occupy these listless hands; the evil will depart, because it has no place to enter in, because it is conquered by good. The best antidote against evil of all kinds, against the evil thoughts that haunt the soul, against the needless perplexities which distract the conscience, is to keep hold of the good we have. Impure thoughts will not stand against pure words and prayers and deeds. Little doubts will not avail against great certainties. Fix your attention on things above, and then you will be less and less troubled by the cares, the temptations, the troubles of things on earth.