Quotes about Temptation

Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!

Whenever the devil harasses you, seek the company of men or drink more, or joke and talk nonsense, or do some other merry thing. Sometimes we must drink more, sport, recreate ourselves, and even sin a little to spite the devil, so that we leave him no place for troubling our consciences with trifles. We are conquered if we try too conscientiously not to sin at all. So when the devil says to you: do not drink, answer him: I will drink, and right freely, just because you tell me not to.

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If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

The devil is who torments good folks in the night. He whispers doubt in your ear. He stirs up anger. He picks at any little mistake you've made, or thinks you've made, and blows it up big. That's Satan, stirring and stirring trouble, like a pot he's trying to boil over, hoping he can spill sin through your soul and slop it all over the people around you.

A penny from God will take you further than a dollar from the devil.

A penny from God will take you further than a dollar from the devil.

Behind every temptation is a divine reward in resisting it; behind every divine opportunity is a reward in taking advantage of it.

One of satan's most successful devices is to preoccupy us with "good" things to distract us from the "right" things.

Successful resistance to temptation may result in an increase of moral muscle, but that is because one is going to need it. A temptation resisted may become more, not less, fierce.

There are temptations to idolatry at every level, and the greater the good the greater the temptation.