On the other hand, whereas physical harm and a degree of emotional pain can sometimes be unavoidable, spiritual harm – letting someone trip us up in our walk with God – can be avoided, just as temptation is unavoidable but yielding to temptation can be avoided. Jesus, for instance, agonized emotionally over those who rejected him and he was physically beaten and killed, but nothing anyone hurled at him shook his faith or his commitment to God.

Taken from Spiritual Abuse: Its Cause & Cure

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