Quotes about Temptation

Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.

You do not want to get married at 22! Especially if you're famous, because girls are going to be throwing themselves at you.

You do not want to get married at 22! Especially if you're famous, because girls are going to be throwing themselves at you.

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

Give me chastity and continence, but not just now.

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

Let no one flatter himself of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.

Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

Remove prostitutes from human affairs, and you will destroy everything with lust.

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.

find it most true, that the greatest temptation out of hell is to live without temptations; if my waters should stand, they would rot. Faith is the better of the free air, and of the sharp winter storm in its face. Grace withereth without adversity. The devil is but God's master fencer, to teach us to handle our weapons.