Quotes about Temptation
The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs.
— CS Lewis
Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.
— Mark Twain
Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature.
— Samuel Johnson
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .
— Charles Dickens
The flesh, or human nature, is generally lazy and self-centered.
— Joyce Meyer
Do not try to find a place free from temptations and troubles. Rather, seek a peace that endures even when you are beset by various temptations and tried by much adversity.
— Thomas a Kempis
Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.
— Frank Herbert
Holiness is not freedom from temptation, but power to overcome temptation.
— G Campbell Morgan
Are you struggling with sin? You don't need more will power. You need more of Jesus.
— Judah Smith
The descent to hell is easy and those who begin by worshipping power, soon worship evil.
— CS Lewis
Oh! how amazing it is that people can talk so much about men's power and goodness, when if God did not hold us back every moment, we should be devils incarnate!
— David Brainerd
The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.
— Will Rogers