Quotes about Temptation
Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the bedroom with an occasional tribute to the cement blocks in the basement!
— John Piper
Jesus calls for violence against our own lust because he loves our true and lasting joy.
— John Piper
Don't make peace with the sin in your life.
— John Piper
The great danger of riches is that our affections will be carried away from God to His gifts.
— John Piper
We desire the wrong things, and we desire right things in the wrong way. And both are deadly—like eating pleasant poison.
— John Piper
People give way to sexual sin because they don't have fullness of joy and gladness in Jesus.
— John Piper
Christians pass through so many difficulties, doubts, temptations, and sins that we need to be consciously anchored in the gospel every day, if we are to "rejoice . . . always" (Phil. 4:4). That is, we need continual reassurance that our sins are forgiven for Jesus's sake, that God is for us and not against us because of Christ, and that we are not destined for wrath, but for everlasting joy, because of the death and resurrection of Jesus.
— John Piper
The fight for joy is the fight to see and believe Christ as more to be desired than the promises of sin.
— John Piper
Be sure that you live not idly, but in some constant business of a lawful calling, so far as you have bodily strength. Idleness is a constant sin, and labour is a duty. Idleness is but the devil's home for temptation, and for unprofitable, distracting musings. Labour profiteth others and ourselves; both soul and body need it. - Richard Baxter
— John Piper
When you are tempted to forsake God because of the greatness of evil and misery in the world, may you remember that the BIble has prepared us for this temptation.
— John Piper
If you want to fight sin by taking bread away from your own mouth, then put it in the mouth of the poor. Then we will see if you are really fasting for righteousness'sake.
— John Piper
The joy of the Lord will arm us against the assaults of our spiritual enemies and put our mouths out of taste for those pleasures with which the tempter baits his hooks."5
— John Piper