flabby sin and flabby virtue

C.S. Lewis' Screwtape, devil and tempter, on the modern pandemic of milquetoast sin:

"Then there was the lukewarm Casserole of Adulterers. Could you find in it any trace of a fully inflamed, defiant, rebellious, insatiable lust? I couldn't. They all tasted to me like undersexed morons who had blundered or trickled into the wrong beds in automatic response to sexy advertisements, or to make themselves feel modern and emancipated, or to reassure themselves about their virility or their 'normalcy,' or even because they had nothing else to do.

"The difficulty lay in their very smallness and flabbiness--how should a jelly not conform? Here were vermin so muddled in mind, so passively responsive to environment, that it was very hard to raise them to that level of clarity and deliberateness at which mortal sin becomes possible.

"The quality may be wretched; but we never had souls (of a sort) in more abundance."

I hope this inspires you, not to avoid sexual immorality (though you undoubtedly should), but to be bold, wise, and deliberate about your actions. Know what virtue is! Meditate on it and seek it in every area of your life! I hope you are sure enough of who you are (and Whose you are) that you are never misled by the world into halfhearted sin.