Avoid sin, avoid temptation to sin

"It is evident that we ought to avoid those things that expose and lead to sin; because a due sense of the evil of sin, and a just hatred of it, will necessarily have this effect upon us, to cause us so to do. If we were duly sensible of the evil and dreadful nature of sin, we should have an exceeding dread of it upon our spirits. We should hate it worse than death, and should fear it worse than the devil himself; and dread it even as we dread damnation. But those things that men exceedingly dread, they naturally shun; and they avoid those things that they apprehend expose to them. As a child, that has been greatly terrified by the sight of any wild beast, will by no means be persuaded to go where it apprehends that it shall fall in its way." (Temptation and Deliverance, The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Volume II, page 228).

saw and got this from here:
http://alwaysonenote.blogspot.com/2008/10/edwards-on-our-sense-of-sin.html