Quotes about Temptation
Why don't you come up sometime 'n see me? I'm home every evening. . . . Come up. I'll tell your fortune. . . . Ah, you can be had.
— Mae West
There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you.
— Cicero
Perplexed and troubled at his bad success the tempter stood, nor had what to reply, discovered in his fraud, thrown from his hope.
— John Milton
The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.
— Cicero
Satan's sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude. Adam and Eve are, simply, painfully ungrateful for what God gave.
— Ann Voskamp
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
— Mark Twain
Our bodies are always exposed to Satan. The maladies I suffer are not natural, but Devil's spells.
— Martin Luther
The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.
— AW Tozer
Every time that we sin, we are born of the devil. But every time that we do good, we are born of God.
— St. John Chrysostom
The higher the stakes, the greater the temptation to lose your temper.
— CS Lewis
When our heart wants to live in purity & do the right thing, God will keep us from falling into sin.
— Stormie Omartian
Those by the wayside are the ones who hear; then the devil comes and takes away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved. But the ones on the rock are those who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, who believe for a while and in time of temptation fall away.
— David Jeremiah