The sky is an enormous man. - Emmanuel Swedenborg

Anyone can see that intending and not acting when we can is not really intending, and loving and not doing good when we can is not really loving.

Angels never attack, as infernal spirits do. Angels only ward off and defend.

In the Protestant Christian world, active repentance, which is examining ourselves, recognizing and admitting to our sins, praying to the Lord, and starting a new life, is extremely difficult to practice, for a number of reasons that will be covered later. Therefore here is an easier kind of repentance: When we are considering doing something evil and are forming an intention to do it, we say to ourselves, “I am thinking about this and I am intending to do it, but because it is a sin, I am not going to do it.” This counteracts the enticement that hell is injecting into us and keeps it from making further inroads.