Quotes about Temptation

People who have been starved of water for a long time will drink anything, even if it is polluted.

Someone who truly understands who he or she is in Christ is further along the road to genuine holiness than someone who, in confusion, anxiously imagines that the new life is the result, rather than the starting-point, of the daily battle with temptation.

The voice of Satan is often hard to recognise precisely because it appears so frequently as the voice of common sense, of prudence, of reason.

But if there had been an earlier "victory," when did it take place? Matthew, Mark, and Luke all supply the answer: at the beginning of Jesus's public career, during his forty-day fast in the desert, when the satan tried to distract him, to persuade him to grasp the right goal by the wrong means, and so to bring him over to his side (Matt. 4:1—11; Mark 1:12—13; Luke 4:1—13).

The Christian churches in general have always been subject to the temptation to use the Bible to annotate the story we want to tell for ourselves, rather than allow the Bible to tell its own story and invite us to join in.

to a viewpoint that was contrary to God's word put Eve on a slippery slope that led to disobedience

We sin because we want something in the created world more than we want the Creator.

Samuel Chadwick said, "The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless works and prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray!" Prayer

The highest freedom is the freedom from evil, not the freedom of doing evil.

The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.

To get back to my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable

A man who marries his mistress leaves a vacancy in that position.