Quotes about Temptation
Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything. It is much easier to steal one hundred pounds than to get it by labour or any other way.
— Samuel Johnson
Resist the devil and he will flee from you. 8Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. Cleanse
— Scott Hahn
Sometimes suffering is what's best for us, if only because it keeps us from sinning or tempting others to sin.
— Scott Hahn
Neither will it out of my mind but that that man that takes up religion for the world will throw away religion for the world; for so surely as Judas designed the world in becoming religious, so surely did he also sell religion and his Master for the same.
— John Bunyan
Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.
— John Bunyan
The man that takes up religion for the world will throw away religion for the world.
— John Bunyan
When power is the only coin, they said, you have nothing left to sell but your soul.
— John C. Wright
Though Satan instills his poison, and fans the flames of our corrupt desires within us,we are yet not carried by any external force to the commission of sin, but our own flesh entices us, and we willingly yield to its allurements.
— John Calvin
Satan accuses God of falsehoods of envy, and of malignity, and our first parents subscribe to a calumny thus vile and execrable.
— John Calvin
luxury generally prevails in prosperity, and wastes the blessings of God
— John Calvin
For this is spiritual sobriety, when we use this world so sparingly and temperately that we are not entangled with its allurements.
— John Calvin
Man stands under the devil's power, and indeed willingly
— John Calvin