Quotes related to Matthew 26:41
They knew, with the painful conviction of experience, what it meant to say, "I see and approve the better, but follow the worse.
— Dorothy Sayers
It's always easier to avoid temptation than to resist it.
— Randy Alcorn
Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.
— Mark Twain
A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.
— Washington Irving
Holiness is not freedom from temptation, but power to overcome temptation.
— G Campbell Morgan
Sin is not simply making bad choices or mistakes. Sin is having the desire in our hearts to do the will of the enemy of God.
— RC Sproul
At the moment I sin, I desire the sin more than I desire to please God.
— RC Sproul
The battle is lost or won in the secret places of the will before God, never first in the external world.
— Oswald Chambers
I have one reason why you should walk away from that temptation right now. One reason: God. Is. Better.
— Francis Chan
Every temptation is an opportunity of our getting nearer to God.
— John Quincy Adams
The essence of temptation is the invitation to live independently of God.
— Neil Anderson
The devil doesn't fill us with hatred for God, but with forgetfulness of God.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer