Quotes about Temptation

Sometimes suffering is what's best for us, if only because it keeps us from sinning or tempting others to sin.

Neither will it out of my mind but that that man that takes up religion for the world will throw away religion for the world; for so surely as Judas designed the world in becoming religious, so surely did he also sell religion and his Master for the same.

Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.

The man that takes up religion for the world will throw away religion for the world.

When power is the only coin, they said, you have nothing left to sell but your soul.

Though Satan instills his poison, and fans the flames of our corrupt desires within us,we are yet not carried by any external force to the commission of sin, but our own flesh entices us, and we willingly yield to its allurements.

Satan accuses God of falsehoods of envy, and of malignity, and our first parents subscribe to a calumny thus vile and execrable.

luxury   generally prevails in prosperity, and wastes the blessings of God

For this is spiritual sobriety, when we use this world so sparingly and temperately that we are not entangled with its allurements.

Man stands under the devil's power, and indeed willingly

since Satan is always breathing down our necks, and is ready and scheming to plunge us into a thousand perils, we ought to be no less watchful and on our guard.

when we are angered by the sins of   others, we should beware lest a temptation of an opposite kind should   take possession of our minds.