Quotes about Temptation
A garden is like those pernicious machineries which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand, and draw in his arm, his leg , and his whole body to irresistible destruction.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where the banana grows man is sensual and cruel.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It takes a man to make a devil.
— Henry Ward Beecher
An exhausted man easily falls prey to the adversary.
— J. Oswald Sanders
Great sins are great possessions; but levities and vanities possess us too; and men had rather part with Christ than with any possession.
— John Donne
Damned money! Alas! How many religious did it blind! How many cloistered religious did it deceive! Money is the 'droppings of birds' that blinded the eyes of Tobit.
— St. Anthony of Padua
Lack of money is the root of of all evil.
— George Bernard Shaw
Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.
— Mark Twain
We must guard against allowing anger to drag us into sin.
— Joyce Meyer
Our murmuring is the devil's music.
— Thomas Watson
The devil won't stay where there is music.
— Martin Luther
The devil won't stay where there is music.
— Martin Luther