Quotes about Temptation
Sinatra's idea of paradise is a place where there are plenty of women and no newspapermen. He doesn't know it, but he'd be better off if it were the other way around.
- Humphrey Bogart
God never tempts any man. That is Satan's business.
- Billy Graham
The man who votes for the saloon is pulling on the same rope with the devil, whether he knows it or not.
- Billy Sunday
Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
- Aldous Huxley
When, therefore, man lives according to man, not according to God, he is like the devil.
- St. Augustine
The worst thing that can happen to a man who gambles is to win
- Charles Spurgeon
"Are you a devil?" "I am a man," answered Father Brown gravely; "and therefore have all devils in my heart."
- GK Chesterton
So long as man remains no real threat to the Enemy, Satan's line to him is 'You're fine'. But after you do take sides, it becomes 'Your heart is bad and you know it'.
- John Eldredge
If men only believe enough in Christ they can commit adultery and murder a thousand times a day without periling their salvation.
- Martin Luther
Every man prefers virtue, when there is not some strong incitement to transgress its precepts.
- Samuel Johnson
The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty.
- Thomas Adams
If a man serves not God only, then surely he serves the devil.
- Martin Luther