Quotes about Temptation

The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.

Satan's sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude. Adam and Eve are, simply, painfully ungrateful for what God gave.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

Our bodies are always exposed to Satan. The maladies I suffer are not natural, but Devil's spells.

The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.

Every time that we sin, we are born of the devil. But every time that we do good, we are born of God.

The higher the stakes, the greater the temptation to lose your temper.

When our heart wants to live in purity & do the right thing, God will keep us from falling into sin.

Those by the wayside are the ones who hear; then the devil comes and takes away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved. But the ones on the rock are those who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, who believe for a while and in time of temptation fall away.

Watch yourself that you make no covenant with the inhabitants of the land into which you are going or it will become a snare in your midst.

The very good people did not convince me; I felt they'd never been tempted. But you knew; you understood; you felt the world outside tugging at one with all its golden hands - and you hated the things it asked of one; you hated happiness bought by disloyalty and cruelty and indifference. That was what I'd never known before - and it's better than anything I've known.

Perhaps I might have resisted a great temptation, but the little ones would have pulled me down.