Quotes about Temptation
The difficulties we face originate from one of three sources. Some are sent to us by the Lord to test our faith, others are the result of Satan's attacks, and still others are due to our own sinful choices.
— Charles Stanley
Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.
— Billy Sunday
You do not want to get married at 22! Especially if you're famous, because girls are going to be throwing themselves at you.
— Usain Bolt
You do not want to get married at 22! Especially if you're famous, because girls are going to be throwing themselves at you.
— Usain Bolt
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
— St. Augustine
Give me chastity and continence, but not just now.
— St. Augustine
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
— St. Augustine
Let no one flatter himself of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.
— St. Augustine
Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
— St. Augustine
Remove prostitutes from human affairs, and you will destroy everything with lust.
— St. Augustine
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
— Saint Jerome
Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
— Saint Jerome