Quotes about Temptation
The flesh, or human nature, is generally lazy and self-centered.
- Joyce Meyer
Do not try to find a place free from temptations and troubles. Rather, seek a peace that endures even when you are beset by various temptations and tried by much adversity.
- Thomas a Kempis
Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.
- Frank Herbert
Holiness is not freedom from temptation, but power to overcome temptation.
- G Campbell Morgan
Are you struggling with sin? You don't need more will power. You need more of Jesus.
- Judah Smith
The descent to hell is easy and those who begin by worshipping power, soon worship evil.
- CS Lewis
Oh! how amazing it is that people can talk so much about men's power and goodness, when if God did not hold us back every moment, we should be devils incarnate!
- David Brainerd
The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.
- Will Rogers
Grant that the voice of our own desires may not be speaking so insistently that we become deaf to your word.
- William Barclay
Sin is not simply making bad choices or mistakes. Sin is having the desire in our hearts to do the will of the enemy of God.
- RC Sproul
Anyone, then, who desires to live chastely in Christ Jesus, must flee not only the mouse of lust, but even from its very scent.
- St. Anthony of Padua
The devil tempts that he may ruin; God tests that he may crown.
- Ambrose of Milan