Quotes about Temptation

The more God wants to use you, the more likely you'll be tempted to quit.

The current of normalcy will pull you away from God at every opportunity if you let it.

You can't build a foundation of sin now for a life of purity later.

The desire for money may be an indication of greed, but I want to argue that greed is a much more subtle vice than simply the desire to be rich.

I like to talk to myself ahead of time so when temptation comes, I've already made up my mind that I have the victory.

There you are. A simple commandment. Not ten of them, just one: 'Thou shalt not eat.' (Personally, I wish the very first edict from God hadn't involved dieting, don't you?)

We all throw away perfectly wonderful lives because our foolish, sinful appetites take us places we should not go.

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

Beyond the grave they will find nothing but death. But we shall keep the secret, and for their happiness we shall allure them with the reward of heaven and eternity.

C. S. Lewis observed that almost all crimes of Christian history have come about when religion is confused with politics. Politics, which always runs by the rules of ungrace, allures us to trade away grace for power, a temptation the church has often been unable to resist.

Be careful," warned Nietzsche, "lest in fighting the dragon you become the dragon." I see the confusion of politics and religion as one of the greatest barriers to grace. C. S. Lewis once said that almost all crimes of Christian history have come about when religion is confused with politics. Politics, which always runs by the rules of ungrace, allures us to trade away grace for power, a temptation the church has often been unable to resist.

the promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the haunting realization that these pleasures ultimately do not satisfy.