Quotes about Temptation
Whenever the world throws rose petals at you, which thrill and seduce the ego, beware. The cosmic banana peel is suddenly going to appear underfoot to make sure you don't take it all too seriously, that you don't fill up on junk food.
- Anne Lamott
Do you think that we're wired this way? With the devil inside? Yeah, in the same way we're wired for God. But not to the same extent.
- Anne Lamott
Satan knows that youth is the springtime of life when all things are new and young people are most vulnerable.
- Ezra Taft Benson
The biggest temptation I believe is to feel comfortable, to feel like you've worked through all of that here on Earth, and are satisfied with this life.
- Nick Vujicic
Temptations in the life of faith are not accidents; each temptation is part of a plan, a step in the progress of faith.
- Oswald Chambers
Boys do not fully know what is good and what is evil; they do wrong things at first almost innocently. Novelty hides vice from them; there is no one to warn them or give them rules; and they become slaves of sin, while they are learning what sin is.
- John Henry Newman
Give me women, wine and snuff Until I cry out hold, enough You may do so san objection Till the day of resurrection; For bless my beard then aye shall be My beloved Trinity.
- John Keats
That the Pape is not the successour of Petir, but whare he said, "Go behynd me, Sathan."
- John Knox
Christ is the Divine answer to the Devil's overthrow of our first parents.
- AW Pink
Charnock said, there is "not a moment of a man's life wherein our hereditary corruption doth not belch its froth.
- AW Pink
But God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it" (1Co 10:13).
- AW Pink
How much are the Lord's people losing today because of their acceptance of the world's favors! Unto how few can the Lord.
- AW Pink