Quotes about Temptation
Foulgrin: If you can keep Fletcher from saying a definitive no to a temptation, you've won. Whatever is not a no is merely a postponed yes. (advice to the tempter Squaltaint)
— Randy Alcorn
countless people step into financial bondage because they spend money they don't have in order to underwrite a "once in a lifetime opportunity." God is not behind every good deal! Self-control means turning down most good deals on things we want because God may have other and better plans for his money.
— Randy Alcorn
Imagination is a God-given gift; but if it is fed dirt by the eye, it will be dirty. All sin, not least sexual sin, begins with the imagination. Therefore what feeds the imagination is of maximum importance in the pursuit of kingdom righteousness." —D. A. Carson
— Randy Alcorn
The devil specializes in rearranging price tags, making the cheap look valuable and the miserable appear happy. (For example, if, before the purchase, people saw photos of themselves after five years of using methamphetamines, would they still buy them?)
— Randy Alcorn
The devil specializes in rearranging price tags, making the cheap look valuable and the miserable appear happy. (For example, if, before the purchase, people saw photos of themselves after five years of using methamphetamines, would they still buy them?)
— Randy Alcorn
The lustful man walks with a noose around his neck.
— Randy Alcorn
Tomorrow's character is made out of today's thoughts. Temptation may come suddenly, but sin doesn't.
— Randy Alcorn
The safest road to hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. C. S. Lewis
— Randy Alcorn
His first step is to make temptation appear as a natural desire. It is something unequivocally physical and human.
— Ravi Zacharias
Seeking new sensations while violating the sacred first desecrates the self and finally destroys the sensation.
— Ravi Zacharias
a solemn reminder not to make our goal in life one of sheer material pursuit. The allurement is great, and the disappointments are proportionate.
— Ravi Zacharias
As Paul said in Romans 7:16 and 18, "I do what I do not want to do… For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out" (NIV).
— Ravi Zacharias