Quotes about Temptation
The devil will give up when he sees that you are not going to give in.
- Joyce Meyer
Satan frequently steals the will of God from us due to reasoning. The Lord may direct us to do a certain thing, but if it does not make sense - if it is not logical - we may be tempted to disregard it. What God leads a person to do does not always make logical sense to his mind. His spirit may affirm it and His mind reject it, especially if it would be out of the ordinary or unpleasant or if it would require personal sacrifice or discomfort.
- Joyce Meyer
It is not that we don't have faith it is just that Satan is trying to destroy our faith with lies.
- Joyce Meyer
Compromise means to go just a little bit below what you know is right. It's just a little bit, but it's the little foxes that spoil the vine.
- Joyce Meyer
When a person is going through a hard time, his mind wants to give up. Satan knows that if he can defeat us in our mind, he can defeat us in our experience. That's why it is so important that we not lose heart, grow weary and faint.
- Joyce Meyer
The mind is often an area where people play around with sin.
- Joyce Meyer
Satan takes our circumstances and builds strongholds in our lives—how he wages war on the battlefield of the mind. But, thank God, we have weapons to tear down the strongholds. God doesn't abandon us and leave us helpless. First Corinthians 10:13 promises us that God will not allow us to be tempted beyond what we can bear, but with every temptation He will also provide the way out, the escape.
- Joyce Meyer
If you are a believer in Jesus Christ, you have power and you can resist temptation!
- Joyce Meyer
Don't ever flirt with sin.
- Joyce Meyer
We are not beyond the devil's ability to tempt us, but we can always resist him in Jesus' name. There are days when the battle of the mind seems relentless, but victory always comes to those who refuse to give up. Thomas Edison said, "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
- Joyce Meyer
if we "mind" the things of the flesh, we will walk in the flesh; but if we "mind" the things of the Spirit, we will walk in the Spirit.
- Joyce Meyer
by our corrupt and sensual nature], obeying the impulses of the flesh and the thoughts of the mind. Ephesians 2:3
- Joyce Meyer