Quotes about Temptation

The devil's purpose in the past was to keep Christ away from the world. Having failed that goal, the only option left to him is to keep the world away from Christ. He does so by sprinkling lies with truths and half-truths to create doubt in our minds about the faithfulness and glory of God.

Temptation is attractive; otherwise it wouldn't be tempting. And it's dangerous because it's attractive.

We should not only refrain from thinking about gratifying our desires but also avoid focusing on not gratifying our desires. The way to deal with temptation is not to grit our teeth and make up our minds that we will not do a certain thing. The key is to fill our minds with other things.

Love of novelties has been the shipwreck of many a soul.

if it happens that the soul is attached or inclined to a thing inordinately, that one should move himself, putting forth all his strength, to come to the contrary of what he is wrongly drawn to.

The Bible says a man's heart is desperately wicked, and who can know it? We're all capable of more evil than we realize.

If the devil cannot make us bad, he will make us busy.

I've heard it said, "If the Devil can't make us really bad, then he'll try to make us really busy.

Once we acknowledge that God is the main character, only then can we even begin to get to that place where we're no longer tempted to let our emotions drive us.

Without someone speaking into your life and keeping you on track with the things you believe, you have a tendency to drift into habitual sin- and you recognize this about yourself.

Wise people put as much distance between themselves and sexual temptation as possible. They not only get away but also plan their escape route.

As we become scarred and desensitized to what is right and wrong, good and evil, life-giving and life-draining, we lose sight of our first love. We move away from God one degree at a time.