“Let us therefore pray that we may not fall into temptation, and that we may not be drawn away by our own lusts, but that we may be delivered from the evil one, and that we may be able to govern our own bodies in holiness and honor.”
–Origen (c. 185 – 254 AD)
Source: Origen, On Prayer, trans. Thomas P. Halton and John J. O’Meara, vol. 2 of Ancient Christian Writers: The Works of the Fathers in Translation, ed. Johannes Quasten and Joseph C. Plumpe (New York: Newman Press, 1954), 102.