From Catholic Exchange:

The devil tempts us to sin by several means: deception, accusa­tion, doubt, seduction, and provocation. These are ways of disquiet­ing us and of arranging circumstances that will likely stir us to commit deadly sins of pride, greed, anger, envy, lust, gluttony, and sloth.

In his excellent book The Devil You Don’t Know, Fr. Louis Cameli articulates four ordinary, common means of diabolical temptation: deception, division, diversion, and discouragement. In my experience, we could add distance, destruction, disobedi­ence, and duplicity. Below, I’ll demonstrate these and other ordi­nary demonic. The goal of temptation is to entice us to commit sin. If we sin, the responsibility is ours, not the devil’s, because grace is always suf­ficient to avoid sin. By resisting and rebuking the following tactics of temptation, we will avoid sin.

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