“The temptations of man are easy enough to be understood, they always fall into one of three categories: they are either temptations of the flesh, such as lust; or, of the mind, such as pride; or of things, such as avarice.
Though man is buffeted all during life by these three temptations, one or the other are more frequent during certain periods of life. It is during youth, that man is most often tempted against purity and inclined to sins of the flesh; in middle age, there is a sublimation of the flesh and the temptation begin to be those of the mind, such as pride and the lust for power; in the autumn of life, temptations very often center about avarice and the possession of material things. Seeing the end of life is near, one strives to compensate for doubts about eternal security of salvation, by piling up the goods of earth as an economic security. It is a common psychological experience, that those who have given way to lust in youth are often those who sin by avarice in their old age.”
Power of God 
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