Quotes about Temptation
The serpent subtlest beast of all the field.
— John Milton
Her rash hand in evil hour forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat: Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat, sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe that all was lost.
— John Milton
Govern well thy appetite, lest sin surprise thee, and her black attendant, Death.
— John Milton
Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve.
— John Milton
Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden.
— John Milton
And out of good still to find means of evil.
— John Milton
Better reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.
— John Milton
understood the necessity of religion as a means of escaping hell, but I loved sin and was unwilling to forsake it.
— John Newton
Steadfastness in believing doth not exclude all temptations from without. When we say a tree is firmly rooted, we do not say the wind never blows upon it.
— John Owen
be killing sin or it will be killing you.
— John Owen
Let not man think he makes any progress in holiness who walks not over the bellies of his lusts.
— John Owen
Let not that man think he makes any progress in holiness who walks not over the bellies of his lusts.
— John Owen