Quotes about Temptation
Great sins are great possessions; but levities and vanities possess us too; and men had rather part with Christ than with any possession.
- John Donne
Damned money! Alas! How many religious did it blind! How many cloistered religious did it deceive! Money is the 'droppings of birds' that blinded the eyes of Tobit.
- St. Anthony of Padua
Lack of money is the root of of all evil.
- George Bernard Shaw
Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.
- Mark Twain
We must guard against allowing anger to drag us into sin.
- Joyce Meyer
Our murmuring is the devil's music.
- Thomas Watson
The devil won't stay where there is music.
- Martin Luther
The devil won't stay where there is music.
- Martin Luther
The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs.
- CS Lewis
Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.
- Mark Twain
Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature.
- Samuel Johnson
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .
- Charles Dickens