Quotes about Temptation

If you get down and quarell everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say.

The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.

This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling Satan's fiery darts, know assuredly that there is a devil.

I think that there are deceptive forces out there that will try to lead us away from God, and we really do need to be careful.

The devil says I'm out, but the Lord says I'm safe.

Satan has an agenda.

Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we don't want to do it.

The long painful history of the Church is the history of people ever and again tempted to choose power over love, control over the cross, being a leader over being led.

Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long continued process.

Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now... Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.

Guess if you can, choose if you dare.

It isn't the hurts, blows, and bruises that rob us of the freshness of Christ's beauty in our lives. More likely, it is careless ease, empty pride, earthly preoccupations, and too much prosperity that will put layers of dirty film over our souls.