Quotes about Temptation

In fact one is tempted to ask whether there is a single man left ready, for once, to commit an outrageous folly.

By faith he was a stranger in the land of promise, and there was nothing to recall what was dear to him, but by its novelty everything tempted his soul to melancholy yearning — and yet he was God's elect, in whom the Lord was well pleased!

those who possess faith should take care to set up certain criteria so that one might distinguish the paradox from a temptation (Anfechtung).

To sin is human, to lay snares is diabolical.

To sin is human, to lay snares is diabolical.

How can you pull down strongholds of Satan if you don't even have the strength to turn off your TV?

We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.

If we didn't have to stand against temptation, we'd never know our own spiritual strength.

The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.

If success corrupts, I'm probably pretty corrupted by now.

I have absolutely no objection to performance and success as long as they don't become false idols and threaten to rule our lives.

There is ever the prior question of plain duty, with which nothing else, however tempting or promising of success, can come into conflict; and such seasons may be only those when our faith and patience are put on trial, so as to bring it clearly before us, whether or not, quite irrespective of all else, we are content to leave everything in the hands of God.