Quotes about Temptation
Temptations will no more prevail over a contented man, than a dart that is thrown against a brazen wall.
- Jeremiah Burroughs
The Devil often transforms himself into an angel to tempt men, some for their instruction, some for their ruin.
- St. Augustine
There is a contagion in example which few men have sufficient force of mind to resist.
- Alexander Hamilton
When God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.
- Cormac McCarthy
Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.
- GK Chesterton
I can no more preach nonviolence to a cowardly man than I can tempt a blind man to enjoy healthy scenes.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Snakes and monkeys are subjected to the demon more than other animals. Satan lives in them and possesses them. He uses them to deceive men and to injure them.
- Martin Luther
Satan tried to put Jesus Christ on the way to becoming King of the world and Savior of men in a way other than that predetermined by God.
- Oswald Chambers
A garden is like those pernicious machineries which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand, and draw in his arm, his leg , and his whole body to irresistible destruction.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where the banana grows man is sensual and cruel.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It takes a man to make a devil.
- Henry Ward Beecher
An exhausted man easily falls prey to the adversary.
- J. Oswald Sanders