Quotes related to 1 Corinthians 10:13
But man is freer than all the animals, on account of his free-will, with which he is endowed above all other animals.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good...Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.
— CS Lewis
There is no way to kill a man's righteousness but by his own consent.
— John Bunyan
Let not that man think he makes any progress in holiness who walks not over the bellies of his lusts. He who doth not kill sin in this way takes no steps toward his journey's end.
— John Owen
No man's body is as strong as his appetites, but Heaven has corrected the boundlessness of his voluptuous desires by stinting his strength and contracting his capacities.
— John Tillotson
There are three things against which the wise man guards: lust when young, quarrels when strong, and covetousness when old.
— Confucius
Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
— GK Chesterton
No man knows what he will do till the right temptation comes.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Out of the frying pan into the fire.
— Tertullian
We must despise all these temptations and pay no attention whatsoever to them.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
There is not one among us in whom a devil does not dwell; at some time, on some point, that devil masters each of us…it is not having been in the Dark House, but having left it that counts.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Of two evils we must always choose the least.
— Thomas a Kempis