Quotes about Temptation
Men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their success
- John Calvin
I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in and invite God and his angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
- John Donne
O! I shall soon despair, when I shall see That Thou lovest mankind well, yet wilt not choose me, And Satan hates me, yet is loth to lose me.
- John Donne
Satan hates me, yet is loth to lose me.
- John Donne
The great enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but the good which is not good enough. The good is always the enemy of the best.
- Oswald Chambers
God uses the opposite situation of each fruit to allow us a choice. You can't claim to be good if you have never been tempted to be bad.
- Rick Warren
Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me... aren't you?
- Dustin Hoffman
Sin can bring pleasure, but never happiness.
- RC Sproul
Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God. No one sins out of duty. We sin because it holds out some promise of happiness.
- John Piper
Why don't you come up sometime 'n see me? I'm home every evening. . . . Come up. I'll tell your fortune. . . . Ah, you can be had.
- Mae West
There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you.
- Cicero
Perplexed and troubled at his bad success the tempter stood, nor had what to reply, discovered in his fraud, thrown from his hope.
- John Milton