Quotes about Temptation
Sometimes, it's just easier to say yes to that extra snack or dessert, because frankly, it is exhausting to keep saying no. It's exhausting to plead with our kids to eat just one more bite of vegetables.
- Michelle Obama
The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible.
- DL Moody
If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old.
- Martin Luther
If the Devil can only make you think that you are abused or ill treated, and you begin to fret about it, and you give the Devil power over you - in the end, it is as bad as though you had done wrong yourself.
- Brigham Young
When satan wants you to cry and you laugh, you defeat him
- TB Joshua
Do we eagerly long for the coming of Christ? Or do we want him to wait while our love affair with the world runs its course? That is the question that tests the authenticity of faith.
- John Piper
Lust hath these three companions: the first, blindness of understanding; the second, hardness of heart; the third, want of grace.
- St. Basil
The devil's one object is so to depress God's people that he can go to the man of the world and say: There are God's people. Do you want to be like that?
- Martyn Lloyd-Jones
The devil wants to convince you that dying is the worst thing. It is very much easier to do what god made you for than not.
- Jackie Pullinger
History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.
- Malcolm Muggeridge
You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?
- Oscar Wilde
Equations are the devil's sentences.
- Stephen Colbert