Quotes about Temptation
When I entered high school I was an A-student, but not for long. I wanted the fancy clothes. I wanted to hang out with the guys. I went from being an A-student to a B-student to a C-student, but I didn't care. I was getting the high fives and the low fives and the pats on the back. I was cool.
- Ben Carson
The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's always easier to avoid temptation than to resist it.
- Randy Alcorn
I adore dark chocolate.
- Diane von Furstenberg
Men are idol factories.
- John Calvin
In best understandings, sin began, Angels sinned first, then Devils, and then Man.
- John Donne
Satan is inconsistent. He persuades a man not to go to a synagogue on a cold morning; yet when the man does go, he follows him into it.
- John Henry Newman
I have been told that beauty is the great seducer of men.
- Paulo Coelho
Let no one flatter himself; of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.
- St. Augustine
Let no one flatter himself; of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.
- St. Augustine
The devil never tempted a man whom he found judiciously employed.
- Charles Spurgeon
Man is oftentimes weak-minded enough to be caught in the snare of greed and honeyed words.
- Mahatma Gandhi