Quotes about Temptation

Let no man think to kill sin with few, easy, or gentle strokes. He who hath once smitten a serpent, if he follow not on his blow until it be slain, may repent that ever he began the quarrel. And so he who undertakes to deal with sin, and pursues it not constantly to the death.

You come hither to learn to die, I am not the only person that must go this way: I can assure you, that your whole life, be it ever so long, is little enough to prepare for death. Have a care of this vain deceitful world and the lusts of the flesh: Be sure you choose God for your portion, heaven for your home, God's glory for your end, his word for your rule, and then you need never fear but we shall meet with comfort.

Oh! what a potent instrument for Satan is a misguided conscience(93)!

As all our senses are the inlets of sin, so they are become the inlets of sorrow (99).

O brethren! It is easier to chide at sin, than to overcome it.

The devil hath his gunpowder plots, and mines, which may blow you up before you are aware. Not

Even innocent Adam is liker to forget God in a paradise, than Joseph in a prison, or Job upon a dunghill(376)[.]

The strongest Christian is unsafe among occasions to sin (519).

The sweetest poison doth often bring the surest death (645).

If you must needs have your pleasures, you should not have put yourselves into that calling that requireth you to make God and His service your pleasure, and restraineth you so much from fleshly pleasures.

It is difficult to talk with God each day and continue to sin.

Only hour by hour gratitude is strong enough to overcome all temptations to resentment.