Quotes about Temptation

It is our response to temptation that leads us down the path of righteousness or into the dead end of disobedience.

Learning to be content with what we have is a safeguard against the temptation to break the previous nine commands.

One of the important things about temptation is, if I'm going to deal with it I'm going to have to recognize, this is an area of weakness in my life. I have been tempted here before and before and before.

There was a massive poster of me down my road, right outside the chip shop. I was about to go in, but then I saw it and changed my mind. Me coming out with a bag of chips, while I'm up there doing crunches on the poster... well, it would not look good.

There was a massive poster of me down my road, right outside the chip shop. I was about to go in, but then I saw it and changed my mind. Me coming out with a bag of chips, while I'm up there doing crunches on the poster... well, it would not look good.

All women like chocolate, it's like female catnip.

Beware the stranger offering gifts, as true for man as it is for fish

The devil will tell a thousand truths to sell one lie.'

Discouragements, then, must come from ourselves and Satan, who laboureth to fasten on us a loathing of duty.

If those also of the younger sort would ask of themselves, why God should not have the flower and marrow of their age? And why they should give their strength to the devil?

All light that is not spiritual, because it wanteth the strength of sanctifying grace, yieldeth to every little temptation, especially when it is fitted and suited to personal inclinations. This is the reason why Christians that have light little for quantity, but yet heavenly for quality, hold out, when men of larger apprehensions sink.

Discouragements, then, must come from ourselves and from Satan, who labors to fasten on us a loathing of duty.